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Rh Gratitude is a spur for your benefactors.

To receive a favor is to pawn your freedom.

He who cannot give, should not receive.

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

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

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

Sympathy in benevolence in the closet of all kinships.

A true benevolence knows the reason of its gifts.

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

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

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.

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

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

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