There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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