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11 Quotes for 'Favors' in the Database.
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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.]
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
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.]
Author: Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)
Source: Epistles (III, 4)
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To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
[Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
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.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Andria (II, 1, 32)
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In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Author: Louis Pasteur
Source: None
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To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
Author: Laber
Source: None
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
Author: Horace Greeley
Source: None
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Source: None
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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.
Author: Anita Brookner
Source: None
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To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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