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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
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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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Land Travel World
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Resolution
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Life Love People Person

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