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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Forward Life Look Past
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking

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