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“A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted
is a more agreeable favor.
[Lat., Gratia, quae tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque
Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes Source: Epigrams (LXXXII, 1)
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“That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et
reddere nescit.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Persa (V, 1, 10)
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“For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if
you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one
denial.
[Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc
solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]”
Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) Quotes Source: Epistles (III, 4)
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“To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
[Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
[Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto
Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes Source: Andria (II, 1, 32)
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“In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.”
Louis Pasteur Quotes |
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“To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.”
Laber Quotes |
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“Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.”
Horace Greeley Quotes |
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“Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.”
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
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“All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.”
Anita Brookner Quotes |
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“To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”
Publilius Syrus Quotes |
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