Gratitude Quote by Anonymous

Men are more easy to repay you with injury then with benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— The 48 Laws Of Power

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

— Thomas Fuller

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a…

— Samuel Johnson

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

— Tacitus

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over…

— Anonymous

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

— Ovid