Generosity to one that hurts another is an injustice

Those who injure one man, in order to be generous to another, are guilty of the same injustice as if they diverted to their own accounts the property of their neighbors. Marcus Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book 1. Section 42.

Image: Mosaic of the church Kahrié-Djami in Istanbul depicting a Census for the collection of taxes from Cyrenios (Quirinius). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.