Flaunting Kindness

To carry a heavy rock to the summit of a mountain is easier than to receive a kindness which is flaunted. p. 26 The bane of a generous action is to mention it. It is better to refuse a kindness than to be reminded of it. I would not accept the whole world if I were to suffer the humiliation of being constantly reminded of the gift. To bestow and flaunt a kindness, and to be stingy and refuse to do an act of kindness, are equally bad. When you do a kindness hide it, and when a kindness is done to you proclaim it. Do good, and throw it into the sea.