Favors Quote by Anonymous

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

— Philip James Bailey

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the…

— Harry S. Truman

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

— Bertolt Brecht

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

— Bertrand Russell

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted…

— Mary McGrory

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

— Aristotle

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to…

— Imagawa Sadayo

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only…

— Arthur Schnitzler

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson