https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/tacitus/30910/ https://wist.info/tacitus/30910/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:14:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=30910 Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

Tacitus (c.56-c.120) Roman historian, orator, politician [Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]
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In Machiavelli, The Discourses, 1.29 (1517) [tr. Detmold (1940)] ]]> https://wist.info/tacitus/30910/feed/ 0 30910 https://wist.info/wooden-john/5019/ https://wist.info/wooden-john/5019/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:44:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5019 You cannot live the perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden (1910-2010) American basketball player and coach
They Call Me Coach, ch. 8, epigram (1972)
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