...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
Cormac McCarthy
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The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel — the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.
Joseph H. Hertz
If he [Job] had never known happiness, then the pain would not have overwhelmed him, for what is pain but an idea that the person knows nothing else does not have, but now it is precisely joy that has educated and developed him to perceive pain.” Then his joy became his own ruin; it was never lost but only lacking, and in its lack it tempted him more than ever before. What had been his eye’s delight, his eyes craved to see again and his ingratitude punished him by inducing him to believe it to be more beautiful than it had ever been. What his soul delighted in, it now thirsted for, and ingratitude punished him by picturing it to him as more delightful than it had ever been. What he once had been able to do, he now wanted to be able to do again, and ingratitude punished him with fantasies that had never had any truth. Then he condemned his soul, living, to be starved out in the insatiable craving of the lack. Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Hong, p. 117
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
Leonardo da Vinci
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
…since God has revealed himself as a Father, we would be guilty of the basest ingratitude if we did not behave as his children.
John Calvin
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