On the vanity of place-seeking
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
15.
Some reply: “But that which becomes greater does not necessarily become different.
It matters not at all whether you pour wine into a flask or into a vat; the wine keeps its peculiar quality in both vessels.
Small and large quantities of honey are not distinct in taste.” But these are different cases which you mention; for wine and honey have a uniform quality; no matter how much the quantity is enlarged, the quality is the same.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the vanity of place-seeking
Location: Chapter 118, Section 15
Content:
15.
Some reply: “But that which becomes greater does not necessarily become different.
It matters not at all whether you pour wine into a flask or into a vat; the wine keeps its peculiar quality in both vessels.
Small and large quantities of honey are not distinct in taste.” But these are different cases which you mention; for wine and honey have a uniform quality; no matter how much the quantity is enlarged, the quality is the same.