On Ingratitude
Illustration★★More hard to bear than the reverse of fortune is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. I turn my head in disgust from their cowardice and selfishness. I hold life in horror: death is repose—repose at last. What I have suffered for the last twenty days cannot be comprehended.
— Napoleon I.
The point
A bitter deathbed lament shows how ingratitude and betrayal by others can feel harder to bear than misfortune itself.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Somber · Bitter
To tell aloud
under a minute · 53 words