Generosity
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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