Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898
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The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932