Be the vine “Someone, when they have done another a kindness, are ready also to…

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Be the vine

“Someone, when they have done another a kindness, are ready also to reckon on a return. Someone else is not ready to do this, yet in their heart of hearts rank the other as a debtor, and they are conscious of what they have done. But another one is … like the vine that has borne a cluster of grapes, and when it has once borne its due fruit looks for no reward beyond.”

– Marcus Aurelius 



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