There are some things that wisdom can remove from us, like unruly passions and fears, and there are others that stay with us no matter how advanced we are in attaining. The blush is one of those things and it arises in both old and young people alike. Seneca tells Lucilius that "Whatever is assigned to us by the terms of our birth and the blend in our constitutions, will stick with us, no matter how hard or how long the soul may have tried to master itself. "
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