A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.

Thomas Aquinas

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.

W. Eugene Hansen

Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.

Luigi Pulci

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

Aristotle

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Publilius Syrus

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

Michael Nesmith

The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...

Michael Nesmith

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.

Tucker Carlson

Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

John Ralston Saul

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

Walter Scott

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.

Michael Lewis

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