Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many thingseloquence cannot, nor the liberal studiessince the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.
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About Seneca
Seneca.
Themes
- Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life