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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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