Date: 1692, 1724

"How difficult a Task will it be, to make an Impression on that unpractis'd Heart?"

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

Date: 1692, 1724

"We us'd to see but little Company, according to the Custom of Spain; but my Father having receiv'd into his House a young Gentleman of a distinguish'd Family in Toledo, whose Name is Don Ramire of Castro, a secret Sympathy dispos'd his Heart and mine, to receive Impressions for each other."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

Date: 1692, 1724

"Assure him from me, that my Heart never receiv'd an Impression before."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

Date: 1692, 1724

"The Condition I am in, Madam, continu'd she, has not made any dishonourable Impression on my Heart."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

Date: 1692, 1724

"Give me Leave to tell you, cry'd the young Prince, that when a Heart is touch'd with a powerful Passion, it's incapable of receiving any other Impression."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

Date: 1692, 1724

"Before I had seen her, nothing cou'd be equal to my Ambition; but now her Charms have made so deep an Impression in my Heart, that all other Passions have submitted to my transcendent Love."

— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)

Date: 1748, 1749

"In the fair sex, the soul adapts itself to the delicacy of constitution: thence flow that tenderness, that affection, those lively sentiments founded rather upon passion than reason; and in fine, those prejudices and superstitions whose impression is so hard to be effaced."

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)

Date: 1748, 1749

"Hurried with incessant rapidity by the vortex of blood and animal spirits, one undulation makes an impression, which is immediately effaced by another; the soul pursues it, but often in vain: she must wait to bewail the loss of what she did not quickly lay hold of; and thus it is that the imagin...

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)

Date: 1748, 1749

"There is, say they, a law of nature, a knowledge of right and wrong deeply imprinted on the mind of man, which, in other animals, is not perceived."

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)

Date: 1748, 1749

"Since there are evident commmunications betwixt the mother and the infant, and it is almost impossible to deny the facts produced by Tulpius and other authors of equal credit with him, we will therefore believe that it is by the same means that the foetus feels the force of the mother's imaginat...

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)