A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.