“I tell you that it is the sign of an overnice appetite to toy with many dishes; for when they are manifold and varied, they cloy but do not nourish. So you should always read standard authors; and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before.”
I like this one too. Although I wonder how this has changed with the infinite sources of reading we now have that Seneca could hardly have imagined at his time.
The previous lines: “Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner.”
I suspect his advice wouldn’t change. We need both acquaintances and true friends. It’s not either/or.
“I tell you that it is the sign of an overnice appetite to toy with many dishes; for when they are manifold and varied, they cloy but do not nourish. So you should always read standard authors; and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before.”
I like this one too. Although I wonder how this has changed with the infinite sources of reading we now have that Seneca could hardly have imagined at his time.
The previous lines: “Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner.”
I suspect his advice wouldn’t change. We need both acquaintances and true friends. It’s not either/or.