Seneca. Quotes
To Want To Know More Than Is Sufficient Is A Form Of Intemperance. Apart From Which This Kind Of Obsession With The Liberal Arts Turns People Into Pedantic, Irritating, Tactless, Self-satisfied Bores, Not Learning What They Need Simply Because They Spend Their Time Learning Things They Will Never Need. The Scholar Didymus Wrote Four Thousand Works: I Should Feel Sorry Him If He Had Merely Read So Many Useless Works.
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