The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAuditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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