#favors

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Chance favors the prepared mind. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ↗

— Horace

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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. ↗

— Hans Kung

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You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. ↗

— Steven Seagal

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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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Fortune favors the brave. ↗

— Terence

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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

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