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My second reason is, that the remedies which are most helpful are those which are not interrupted.
You should not allow your quiet, or the oblivion to which you have consigned your former life, to be broken into.
Give your eyes time to unlearn what they have seen, and your ears to grow accustomed to more wholesome words.
Whenever you stir abroad you will meet, even as you pass from one place to another, things that will bring back your old cravings.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On rest and restlessness
Location: Chapter 69, Section 2
Content:
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My second reason is, that the remedies which are most helpful are those which are not interrupted.
You should not allow your quiet, or the oblivion to which you have consigned your former life, to be broken into.
Give your eyes time to unlearn what they have seen, and your ears to grow accustomed to more wholesome words.
Whenever you stir abroad you will meet, even as you pass from one place to another, things that will bring back your old cravings.