Marquis de Lafayette

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

French Revolutionary

Arthur Smith

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.

English Comedian

Leonard Cohen

I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song.

Canadian Singer

Samuel Johnson

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

English Writer

Germaine Greer

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Australian Activist

Khalil Gibran

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Lebanese Poet

William Hazlitt

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

English Critic

Joseph Epstein

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

American Writer

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Roman Statesman

Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Swedish Scientist

Used in contexts where actions have direct consequences, positive or negative.

Reward or Punishment

Recompense doesn't always involve money, it can be any form of compensation.

Not Always Monetary

Often used in formal situations like legal, professional, or literary contexts.

Formal Context

When used as a verb, it implies an action of giving something in return.

Action Required

As a verb, it's quite formal and not commonly used in casual speech.

Not a Casual Term

Recompense in religion relates to moral actions and their spiritual consequences.

Religious Significance

The religious meaning of recompense often extends to an afterlife concept.

Eternal Perspective

 is blessing us he keeps us from starving hah look we're not the only people who take things unless you think these savages have learned at a forge iron we could offer them full recompense we have beads and tract of a ship

God's Thieves PIPE Saints &...

 to find a dry seat a juicy snail is ample recompense for