The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.