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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Fate Inspirational
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bravery Freedom Reality
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Friendship Necessarily
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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