A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Moral Essays, Volume III: de BeneficiisQuienquiera que perfume a un escorpión no por ello escapará a su aguijonazo. Bahaudin Naqshband
Un escorpión perfumadoOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne