"What is called generosity is usually only..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.”

“We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.”

“That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.”

“Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.”

“I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.”

“The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.”

“There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.”

“We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.”

“The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.”