The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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