“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”

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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

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The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey`s bray;
These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses
On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
Some old man memory jumps to a child
— Spark from the days of energy.
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