Tiruvalluvar

“ Delight of glad'ning human hearts with gifts do they not know.
Men of unpitying eye, who hoard their wealth and lose it so?
Do the hard-eyed who lay up and lose their possessions not know the happiness which springs from the pleasure of giving ? ”

“ Whose soul delights with hungry men to share his meal,
The hand of hunger's sickness sore shall never feel.
The fiery disease of hunger shall never touch him who habitually distributes his food to others. ”

“ They keep their garners full, for self alone the board they spread;-
'Tis greater pain, be sure, than begging daily bread!
Solitary and unshared eating for the sake of filling up one's own riches is certainly much more unpleasant than begging. ”