A Quote by Tacitus

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

Tacitus

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Tacitus

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Thomas Fuller

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude.

Sri Chinmoy

Requite injury with kindness.

Laozi

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Clay Shirky

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

David Levithan

The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.

Hillary Clinton

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Tacitus

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

Clinton Lee Scott

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Benjamin Franklin

Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.