La Rochefoucauld §laroch_438: There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits ...

There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us. ["And understood not that a grateful mind, By owing owes not, but is at once Indebted and discharged." Milton. Paradise Lost.]