Best gratitude & revenge Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

Wisdom Gratitude Revenge Expensive Thank You Profitable

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

Important War Remember Forget History Policy Gratitude Revenge Civil War Expensive Injury Profitable Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.”

Men Littles Made Reason Seems Enemy Gratitude Adversity Fortune Revenge Pity Reason Why Great Men Attachment Punctual

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Mind Pain Pleasure Return Gratitude Benefits Species Revenge Obligation Impatient Inferiority Recompense Exacting Revenge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”