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Quote from Lucius Annaeus Seneca,


"Our feeling about every obligation depends in each case upon the spirit in which the benefit is conferred; we weigh not the bulk of the gift, but the quality of the good-will which prompted it."


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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (more quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca or books by/about Lucius Annaeus Seneca)


(4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, "Seneca the Younger"

Source:

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXI, line 6

Categories:

Obligation, Benevolence, Goodwill, Charity

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