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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
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
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
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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