Avenger's activity

Usage examples of repaying.

It is clear that if forgetfulness of a benefit steals over a man, he cannot have often thought about repaying it.

So the only part of your wish that could be thought honourable proves to be the base and ungrateful feeling of unwillingness to lie under an obligation: for what you wish for is, not that you may have an opportunity of repaying his kindness, but that he may be forced to beg you to do him a kindness.

Above all, therefore, my Liberalis, let us learn to live calmly under an obligation to others, and watch for opportunities of repaying our debt without manufacturing them.

He who thinks too much about repaying a benefit must suppose that his friend thinks too much about receiving repayment.

Moreover, this man, being always eager, and on the watch for an opportunity of doing this, as he has expended much anxiety and much trouble upon it, has really done more than he who quickly had an opportunity of repaying your kindness.

Indeed, if a feeling of gratitude has no value in repaying a kindness without giving something material, then no one can be grateful to the gods, whom we can repay by gratitude alone.

Since the borrowing and repaying on average cancel each other out, an empty region of space looks calm and placid when examined with all but microscopic precision.

She was going to insist upon repaying him for his services, and that was that.

It was her way of repaying the debt, of atoning for a sin she knew her mother would never have forgiven her for.

He needed five hundred gold bars to begin repaying the church, by no later than midsummer.

She, on the other hand, had grown up in a small, working-class town in Pennsylvania and had made it through far less prestigious schools on scholarships, loans she was still repaying and various unpleasant jobs.