Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Benefits

Benefits grow old betimes, but injuries are long livers.

Benefits like flowers please most when they are fresh.

Benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom and unrequited obligation perpetual thraldom, which is hateful.Hobbs.

Benefits turn poison in bad minds.Byron.

He is more noble that deserves than he who confers benefits.

He that requites a benefit pays a great debt.

Let him who has bestowed a benefit be silent, let him who has received it tell of it.Seneca.

The last benefit is the most remembered.

There is no benefit so small that a good man will not magnify it.Seneca.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

To receive a benefit is to sell one’s liberty.