Marcus Tullius Cicero Kindness Quotations

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."