The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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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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Time discovers truth.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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After death there is nothing.
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