Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Benefits
Beneficium non in eo quod fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Seneca—De Beneficiis. I. 6.
Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
Seneca—De Beneficiis. I. 1.
Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret, qui accepit.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it.
Seneca—De Beneficiis. II. 11.
Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.
Syrus, in the collection of proverbs known as the Proverbs of Seneca.
Beneficia usque eo læta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
Tacitus—Annales. IV. 18.