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If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
Seek joy in what you give not in what you get
Seek joy in what you give not in what you get
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.
You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.