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Generosity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quærere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.— HORACE — Carmina. I. 9. 13.

Vive sine invidiâ, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares. May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.— OVID — Tristium. III. 4. 43.

Cum altera lux venit Jam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras Egerit hos annos, et semper paulum erit ultra. When another day has arrived, we will find that we have consumed our yesterday's to-morrow; another morrow will urge on our years, and still be a little beyond us.— PERSIUS — Satiræ. V. 67.

Sunt aliquid Manes; letum non omnia finit. Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos. There is something beyond the grave; death does not put an end to everything, the dark shade escapes from the consumed pile.— PROPERTIUS — Elegiæ. IV. 7. 1.

Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius. The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium.

Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas. Et melius nullâ quæritur arte favor. It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. II. 9. 39.

Repente liberalis stultis gratus est, Verum peritis irritos tendit dolos. A man that suddenly becomes generous may please fools, but he vainly lays snares for the wise. a. PHEDRUs-Fabul. I. 23.