“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.”
Qui grate beneficium accipit, primam eius pensionem solvit.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Beneficiis (On Benefits): Book 2, cap. 22, line 1.
Moral Essays
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“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.”
Qui grate beneficium accipit, primam eius pensionem solvit.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Beneficiis (On Benefits): Book 2, cap. 22, line 1.
Moral Essays
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Le più caritative persone che sieno sono le donne, e le più fastidiose. Chi le scaccia, fugge e fastidii e l'utile; chi le intrattiene, ha l'utile ed e fastidii insieme. Ed è 'l vero che non è el mele sanza le mosche.
Act III, scene iv
The Mandrake (1524)
“He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.”
Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 7; translated by W. K. Marriott
Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
As quoted in Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations (1908) by Hugh Percy Jones, p. 140
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
As quoted in "Pope Francis: Donald Trump 'is not Christian'", by Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News (18 February 2016) http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-trump-is-not-christian/ <br class="br">2010s, 2016, Visit to Mexico (February 2016)
Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) Anglo-Dutch writer and physician
Dr. Johnson in conversation, April 15, 1778, reported in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1791) p. 948.
Criticism