On the part played by philosophy in the progress of man
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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.
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It is my opinion that the wise man has not withdrawn himself, as Posidonius thinks, from those arts which we were discussing, but that he never took them up at all.
For he would have judged that nothing was worth discovering that he would not afterwards judge to be worth using always.
He would not take up things which would have to be laid aside.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the part played by philosophy in the progress of man
Location: Chapter 90, Section 30
Content:
30.
It is my opinion that the wise man has not withdrawn himself, as Posidonius thinks, from those arts which we were discussing, but that he never took them up at all.
For he would have judged that nothing was worth discovering that he would not afterwards judge to be worth using always.
He would not take up things which would have to be laid aside.