One good turn deserves another. — Gaius Petronius
One good turn deserves another.
In the original Latin
Manus manum lavat.
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Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 45.
Original citation
Petronius. Satyricon, Satyricon liber [The Book of Satyrlike Adventures]. c. 1st century AD, sect. 45.