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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
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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Conclusion Justice May Side
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise

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