On Scipio's villa
86:7
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.
7.
I have so far been speaking of the ordinary bathing-establishments; what shall I say when I come to those of the freedmen?
What a vast number of statues, of columns that support nothing, but are built for decoration, merely in order to spend money!
And what masses of water that fall crashing from level to level!
We have become so luxurious that we will have nothing but precious stones to walk upon.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On Scipio's villa
Location: Chapter 86, Section 7
Content:
7.
I have so far been speaking of the ordinary bathing-establishments; what shall I say when I come to those of the freedmen?
What a vast number of statues, of columns that support nothing, but are built for decoration, merely in order to spend money!
And what masses of water that fall crashing from level to level!
We have become so luxurious that we will have nothing but precious stones to walk upon.