Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

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

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

No one wearies of benefits received.

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.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

From where I came from, the way I was raised, when somebody does something for you, you always want to give something back to them.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

The UFC does not owe me a thing. Nothing. I am in debt to them.

I am grateful to Rahman sir. There is no way I can repay the graces he has extended to me by making me sing his compositions.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.