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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
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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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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