On the usefulness of basic principles
95:23
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.
23.
Nowadays, however, to what a stage have the evils of ill-health advanced!
This is the interest which we pay on pleasures which we have coveted beyond what is reasonable and right.
You need not wonder that diseases are beyond counting: count the cooks!
All intellectual interests are in abeyance; those who follow culture lecture to empty rooms, in out-of-the-way places.
The halls of the professor and the philosopher are deserted; but what a crowd there is in the cafés!
How many young fellows besiege the kitchens of their gluttonous friends!
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 23
Content:
23.
Nowadays, however, to what a stage have the evils of ill-health advanced!
This is the interest which we pay on pleasures which we have coveted beyond what is reasonable and right.
You need not wonder that diseases are beyond counting: count the cooks!
All intellectual interests are in abeyance; those who follow culture lecture to empty rooms, in out-of-the-way places.
The halls of the professor and the philosopher are deserted; but what a crowd there is in the cafés!
How many young fellows besiege the kitchens of their gluttonous friends!