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THE SAYINGS OF PUBLIUS SYRUS
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86.

Gratitude is a spur for your benefactors.

87.

To receive a favor is to pawn your freedom.

88.

He who cannot give, should not receive.

89.

To give to the deserving, is to lay all men under obligation.

90.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

91.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

92.

Sympathy in benevolence in the closet of all kinships.

93.

A true benevolence knows the reason of its gifts.

94.

To die by another's command is to endure two deaths.

95.

A favor granted before it is asked, is doubly acceptable.

96.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

97.

He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.

98.

Aid rendered the wrong-doer, makes you the greater sinner.

99.

Conquest over one's self, in the hour of victory, is a double triumph.

100.

Multiply your acts of kindness, and you teach the recipient to return them.