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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Seneca the Younger

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Innocence Men Mind

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