“If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.”

—  Seneca the Younger

Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVIII: On travel as a cure for discontent, Line 9

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Nam qui peccare se nescit, corrigi non vult.

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