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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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