Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
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.
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.
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.