Acts 20:35

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Ver. 35. It is more blessed] Epicurus could say, του ευ πασχειν το ευ ποιειν καλλιον και ηδιον, that to do good was not only better, but sweeter also than to receive good. Julius Caesar counted nothing his own that he bestowed not upon others. And it better pleased Cyrus to give than to possess any good thing that he had. Διδους μαλλον η κτωμενος ηδεται (Xenoph.)