"Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.”

“As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.”

“Give back to the world at least what you've received.”

“So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.”

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.”

“We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.”

“Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.”