Cassiodorus: Why and how monks give

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“We always enjoy being generous.”

“We do not wish to be generous at the expense of others.”

Cassiodorus (490-585) historian, statesman, and monk, in The Letters of Cassiodorus trans. Thomas Hodgkin (London: Henry Frowde, 1886) 175, 180.