#recompense

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#been #being #closer #contact #deprived

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#being #contempt #dead #living #poor

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#justice #master #may #must #recompense

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#came #captain #doing #eight #everyone

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#desire #others #recompense #thought #true