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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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