A Quote by Publilius Syrus

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Publilius Syrus

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Benefit Favor Those Worthy

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Phyllis Schlafly

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Philip Sidney

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

Victor Hugo

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Plutarch

The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.

Thiruvalluvar

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Jean de la Bruyere

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Chilon of Sparta

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

Henry Hazlitt

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Anthony Trollope

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

Albio Sires

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

Mark Lawson

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