On liberal and vocational studies
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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.
43.
Let me tell you what evils are due to over-nice exactness, and what an enemy it is of truth!
Protagoras declares that one can take either side on any question and debate it with equal success—even on this very question, whether every subject can be debated from either point of view.
Nausiphanes holds that in things which seem to exist, there is no difference between existence and non-existence.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On liberal and vocational studies
Location: Chapter 88, Section 43
Content:
43.
Let me tell you what evils are due to over-nice exactness, and what an enemy it is of truth!
Protagoras declares that one can take either side on any question and debate it with equal success—even on this very question, whether every subject can be debated from either point of view.
Nausiphanes holds that in things which seem to exist, there is no difference between existence and non-existence.