Odium vel precibus mitigari potest vel temporibus rei publicae communique utilitate deponi vel difficultate ulciscendi contineri vel vetustate sedari: bene meritos ne colas nec exorari fas est, neque id rei publicae remittere utique necesse est neque est excusatio difficultatis neque aequum est tempore et die memoriam beneficii definire.
Animosity can be assuaged by personal appeal, or it can be renounced in consideration of public crises or the common welfare; hindrances to the exaction of revenge may bid us stifle it, or it may be abated by lapse of years; but duty forbids that any entreaty should induce us to ignore our benefactors, nor can any circumstances compel us to postpone our gratitude to political exigencies; to allege impediments is no palliation of neglect, nor must the recollection of benefits be made contingent upon times or opportunities.
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