Liberality
consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
-- Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer |
What is called
generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the
vanity more than the thing given.
-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer |
What seems to be
generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which
overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer |
Generosity during
life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of
death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the
other from pride or fear.
-- Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator
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Many people are
capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very
few a generous thing.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic,
Translator |
What I gave I
have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
-- Robert of Doncaste |
The poor don't
know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
1905-1980, French Writer,
Philosopher |
Generosity is
nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all
which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I
give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which
one gives.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
1905-1980, French Writer,
Philosopher |
