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71: Cicero's "On Doody" [sic], Book I

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Christian Principles of Giving

It's a better policy to give indiscriminately than it is to be tight-fisted and then only give say sandwiches. But there's also something ennobling about saying, you were asking for money, I'm going to give you money because I trust to make the decision. It has to be proportioned to the worthiness of the recipient. Under foreheadings, his moral character, his attitude towards us, the intimacy of his relation to us.

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