Francois de La Rochefoucauld Benefits Quotations

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

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.