The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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