Christmas gift suggestions: to your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Framed as a list of “gift suggestions,” the saying shifts Christmas away from material exchange toward ethical practice. Each recipient category—enemy, opponent, friend, customer, all people, children, and oneself—maps to a corresponding virtue: forgiveness, tolerance, affection, service, charity, exemplary conduct, and self-respect. The progression widens from private grievances to public dealings and finally to personal integrity, implying that the season’s proper “giving” is relational and moral. Its aphoristic structure makes it usable as a maxim for civic life as much as for holiday sentiment, presenting everyday decency as the most fitting celebration.