A Quote by Tacitus

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

Tacitus

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

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

Tacitus

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson

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

Benjamin Franklin

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.

Robert Peel

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

Derek R. Audette

Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.

William Shakespeare

I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while

Kim Kyu-jong

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

Bruce Jackson

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.