Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
"A favour to come is better than a hundred received" (Italian).[435] Who was it that first defined gratitude as a lively sense of future favours? "When I confer a favour," said Louis XIV., "I make one ingrate and a hundred malcontents."
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[431] Ôtez un vilain du gibet, il vous y mettra.
[432] Dépends le pendard, il te pendra.
[433] Cria el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos. Erziehst du dir einen Raben, so wird er dir die Augen ausgraben.
[434] Giör vel imod en Skalk, og bed til Gud han lönner dig ikke.
[435] Val più un piacere da farsi, che cento di quelli fatti.