It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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