The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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