On the usefulness of basic principles
95:19
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.
19.
Mark the number of things—all to pass down a single throat—that luxury mixes together, after ravaging land and sea.
So many different dishes must surely disagree; they are bolted with difficulty and are digested with difficulty, each jostling against the other.
And no wonder, that diseases which result from ill-assorted food are variable and manifold; there must be an overflow when so many unnatural combinations are jumbled together.
Hence there are as many ways of being ill as there are of living.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the usefulness of basic principles
Location: Chapter 95, Section 19
Content:
19.
Mark the number of things—all to pass down a single throat—that luxury mixes together, after ravaging land and sea.
So many different dishes must surely disagree; they are bolted with difficulty and are digested with difficulty, each jostling against the other.
And no wonder, that diseases which result from ill-assorted food are variable and manifold; there must be an overflow when so many unnatural combinations are jumbled together.
Hence there are as many ways of being ill as there are of living.