On brawn and brains
15:3
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
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Many inconveniences beset those who devote themselves to such pursuits.
In the first place, they have their exercises, at which they must work and waste their life-force and render it less fit to bear a strain or the severer studies.
Second, their keen edge is dulled by heavy eating.
Besides, they must take orders from slaves of the vilest stamp,—men who alternate between the oil-flask and the flagon, whose day passes satisfactorily if they have got up a good perspiration and quaffed, to make good what they have lost in sweat, huge draughts of liquor which will sink deeper because of their fasting.
Drinking and sweating,—it’s the life of a dyspeptic!
Book: Moral Letters Vol I
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On brawn and brains
Location: Chapter 15, Section 3
Content:
3.
Many inconveniences beset those who devote themselves to such pursuits.
In the first place, they have their exercises, at which they must work and waste their life-force and render it less fit to bear a strain or the severer studies.
Second, their keen edge is dulled by heavy eating.
Besides, they must take orders from slaves of the vilest stamp,—men who alternate between the oil-flask and the flagon, whose day passes satisfactorily if they have got up a good perspiration and quaffed, to make good what they have lost in sweat, huge draughts of liquor which will sink deeper because of their fasting.
Drinking and sweating,—it’s the life of a dyspeptic!