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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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