Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Even good people are obliged to deceive.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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