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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

First Give Prudence Science
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cultivation Culture May Mind
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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