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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
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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Down Hand Let Pit
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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