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A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat., Gratia, quae tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.] - Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Epigrams (LXXXII, 1) 'Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon. - Joanna Baillie He only confers favors generously who appears, when they are once conferred, to remember them no more. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them. - Jean de la Bruyere That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Persa (V, 1, 10) For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. [Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.] - Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus), Epistles (III, 4) 'Tis the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter, and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. - William Shakespeare To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Andria (II, 1, 32)
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