That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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