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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.


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ANTHONY T. HINCKS The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
UNKNOWN The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil
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GLENN C. STEWART That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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ROCKY BERNARD The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.
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LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
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TIM MORRIS The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
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KEVIN WALKER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The mouth will always look for avenue to express what the mind has been filled with.
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to figure out what the mind
already k...
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SENECA All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA He who profits by a crime commits it
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SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
SENECA A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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SENECA Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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SENECA We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA He who is brave is free.
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SENECA Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
SENECA If you judge, investigate
SENECA He is most powerful who has power over himself
SENECA Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tel...
SENECA A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
SENECA Time discovers truth.
SENECA No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
SENECA Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
SENECA While we teach, we learn.
SENECA Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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SENECA Whom they have injured, they also hate.
SENECA While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the whe...
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SENECA Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
SENECA It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SENECA The best ideas are common property.
SENECA The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the int...
SENECA Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
SENECA Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
SENECA Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)
SENECA It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to cont...
SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA We learn not in the school, but in life
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery
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SENECA The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
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SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
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SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
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SENECA The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
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SENECA What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
SENECA While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
SENECA Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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SENECA Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
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SENECA Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
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SENECA Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA To greed, all nature is insufficient.
SENECA Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
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SENECA We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
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SENECA There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.
SENECA The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
SENECA Injustice never rules forever
SENECA A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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SENECA It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECA It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
SENECA Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it show...
SENECA If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
SENECA Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SENECA If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
SENECA He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
SENECA He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
SENECA Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SENECA Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
SENECA Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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SENECA Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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SENECA An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
SENECA All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA One should count each day a separate life.
SENECA One hand washes the other.
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SENECA Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
SENECA Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
SENECA No one can wear a mask for very long.
SENECA Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery.
SENECA Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SENECA Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
SENECA It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
SENECA It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
SENECA It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
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SENECA It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
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SENECA It better befits a man to laugh than to lament over it.
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SENECA It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
SENECA Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
SENECA There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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