• To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Kuno Fischer (1867). “Nathan the Wise: A Dramatic Poem”, p.90