On Vatia's villa
55:3
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As my habit is, I began to look about for something there that might be of service to me, when my eyes fell upon the villa which had once belonged to Vatia.
So this was the place where that famous praetorian millionaire passed his old age!
He was famed for nothing else than his life of leisure, and he was regarded as lucky only for that reason.
For whenever men were ruined by their friendship with Asinius Gallus whenever others were ruined by their hatred of Sejanus, and later by their intimacy with him,—for it was no more dangerous to have offended him than to have loved him,—people used to cry out: “O Vatia, you alone know how to live!”
Book: Moral Letters Vol I
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On Vatia's villa
Location: Chapter 55, Section 3
Content:
3.
As my habit is, I began to look about for something there that might be of service to me, when my eyes fell upon the villa which had once belonged to Vatia.
So this was the place where that famous praetorian millionaire passed his old age!
He was famed for nothing else than his life of leisure, and he was regarded as lucky only for that reason.
For whenever men were ruined by their friendship with Asinius Gallus whenever others were ruined by their hatred of Sejanus, and later by their intimacy with him,—for it was no more dangerous to have offended him than to have loved him,—people used to cry out: “O Vatia, you alone know how to live!”