Plautus Quotes

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

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

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

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

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

You save my face this afternoon and I’ll save your face tomorrow.

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

I have no favors to pay back.

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

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

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

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!

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that

No one wearies of benefits received.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.