Gratitude may not always have a very lasting power; but the frequent recurrence of an application for favors will revive and refresh it, and will necessarily produce some degree of mutual attention.
Burke reflects on the nature of gratitude and how repeated requests can strengthen mutual attention between people.
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Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
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