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Jean de la Bruyère quotesGenerosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Jean-Paul Sartre quotesGenerosity 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.
François de La Rochefoucauld quotesWhat is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Unknown Source quotesIf you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility.
Horace Mann quotesGenerosity 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.
Euripides quotesTo generous souls every task is noble.
Samuel Johnson quotesSir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
François de La Rochefoucauld quotesWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Alexander Pope quotesMany people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Jean de la Bruyère quotesLiberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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