 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Sir Roger L'Estrange - Conduct of life - 1764 - 430 pages
...makes a Man afhamed of requiting an Obligation, becaufc it is a Confeffcu that he has received one. • NOT to return one good Office for another, is inhuman ; but to return Evil forGood, is dia- * ,T bolical. There are too many even of *°j '" re'*r* this fort, who, the more they... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Conduct of life - 1803 - 372 pages
...makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one. Not to return one good office for another^ is inhuman; but to return evil for good, is diabolical. nhere are too many even of this sort, who, the People follow [heir interest, more they owe, the more... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...that a person actually belongs, or at least, deserves to belong, to a court. — "Montesquieu. DCIV. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There is nothin g... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...that a person actually belongs, or at least, deserves to belong, to a court. — Montesquieu. DCIV. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There is nothing... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because 't is a confession that he has received one. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman ; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There 's nothing... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation because 'tis a confession that he has received one. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There's nothing more... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...is a way to escape from it ; and with this I begin and end. — Newton. EVIL RETURNED FOR GOOD. — Not to return one good office for another, is inhuman ; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There is nothing... | |
 | Sir Roger Lestrange, Knt. - 1855 - 668 pages
...makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman ; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too Not to return good ^ii_- ,1,1 , for good is inhuman: many evon of thls sort, who, the... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...that a person actually belongs, or at least, deserves to belong, to a court. — Montesquieu. DCIV. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman , but to return evil for good is diabolical. 1'here are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There is nothing... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...that a person actually belongs, or at least, deserves to belong, to a court. — Montesquieu. DCIV. Not to return one good office for another is inhuman , but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There is nothing... | |
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Not to return one good office for another is inhuman ; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. 
