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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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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Epileptic Precaution Regard
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
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
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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