Favors

Favors or favours are acts by which help is voluntarily provided to another person out of goodwill, rather than in the interests of justice or for payment.

Quotes

 * Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
 * Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus


 * Let the favour be repaid to him who repays a favour.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection XIII at ,

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267.


 * Gratia, quæ tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.
 * A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
 * Ausonius, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1.


 * Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.
 * That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
 * Plautus, Persa, V, 1, 10.


 * Nam quamblibet sæpe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.
 * 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.
 * Pliny the Younger, Epistles, III. 4.


 * Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.
 * To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
 * Syrus, Maxims.


 * Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiæ apponi sibi.
 * No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
 * Terence, Andria, II. 1. 32.