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Gift Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
- Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
- Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not…
- Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
- If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift,…
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