Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
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.
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.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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.
I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.