nemo dat quid non habet

"We can not give what we do not have"

I have always believed that the really generous people are those who give of themselves.

In my book those who do social work, the NGOs and politicians who get compensation for "helping" or serving others are not being generous but simply doing their job. So too are those do-gooders who do charity work by soliciting from others, they too are in it for themselves and not for their target beneficiaries.