On the usefulness of basic principles
95:27
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.
27.
In these days we are ashamed of separate foods; people mix many flavours into one.
The dinner table does work which the stomach ought to do.
I look forward next to food being served masticated!
And how little we are from it already when we pick out shells and bones and the cook performs the office of the teeth!
They say: “It is too much trouble to take our luxuries one by one; let us have everything served at the same time and blended into the same flavour.
Why should I help myself to a single dish?
Let us have many coming to the table at once; the dainties of various courses should be combined and confounded.
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 27
Content:
27.
In these days we are ashamed of separate foods; people mix many flavours into one.
The dinner table does work which the stomach ought to do.
I look forward next to food being served masticated!
And how little we are from it already when we pick out shells and bones and the cook performs the office of the teeth!
They say: “It is too much trouble to take our luxuries one by one; let us have everything served at the same time and blended into the same flavour.
Why should I help myself to a single dish?
Let us have many coming to the table at once; the dainties of various courses should be combined and confounded.