Alain de Botton Quotes, People Quotes, Generosity Quotes

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

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We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

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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.

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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

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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.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

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The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

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Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

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My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

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GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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