October 15, 2025

Nothing is so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), Italian historian and statesman, Ricordi, C, 24

Whose good opinion can you regain, no matter how tardy, by your expression of well-deserved gratitude to one who did you a good turn?

Beware that class of constituents who persist in demanding benefits the memory of which, once received, is always erased in a fit of amnesia.