It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound. Ambrose
You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich. Ambrose
A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
A loan, though old, is not a gift. Hungarian Proverb
Just because a loan is old, that does not make it a gift. Hungarian Proverb
A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift. Persian Proverb