Continentiam iubes; da quod iubes et iube quod vis. You command continence; give what youcommand and command what you will.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 397  Confessions, bk.10, ch.29.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 6:38.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 20:35.

Er l a« chelte und sagte: 'Von mir willst du denWeg erfahren?' 'Ja,'sagte ich,'da ich ihn selbst nich finden kann.' 'Gibs auf, gibs auf,'sagte er und wandte sich mit einem groÞen Schwunge ab, so wie Leute, die mit ihrem Lachen allein sein wollen. Hesmiled and said: 'Youasking metheway?' 'Yes,'Isaid, 'since I cannot find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!'said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.

-Kafka, Franz
'Gibs  Auf!', collected in Nahum N Glatzer (ed)  The Complete Stories (1971).

Fortune's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take awayall at one swoop. 894

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act1, sc.1.