La Rochefoucauld §laroch_225: What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the gi...

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. ["The first foundation of friendship is not the power of conferring benefits, but the equality with which they are received, and may be returned."--Junius's Letter To The King.]