Skip to content

Seneca · Moral Letters to Lucilius

Letter 108 — On the Approaches to Philosophy (§5)

A quote
“What then?” you say, “do we not know certain men who have sat for many years at the feet of a philosopher and yet have not acquired the slightest tinge of wisdom?” Of course I know such men. There are indeed persevering gentlemen who stick at it; I do not call them pupils of the wise, but merely “squatters.”
Seneca·Letter 108 — On the Approaches to Philosophy (§5)·trans. Gummere
Another quote →