“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.”

— Jean de La Bruyère , book Les Caractères

La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup qu'à donner à propos.
Aphorism 47; Variant translation: Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

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La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup qu'à donner à propos.

Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

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Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.
Maxim 142.
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