The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BC