rare on Nostr: "Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to ...
"Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.
"For whose benefit, then, did I learn it all? If it was for your own benefit that you learnt it you have no call to fear that your troubles may have been wasted.
" To me, says Democritus, a single man is a crowd, and a crowd a single man. Equally good is the answer given by the person whoever it was, who when asked what was the object of all the trouble he took over a piece of craftsmanship when it would never reach more than a very few people, replied: 'A few is enough for me; so is one; and so is none.'"
—Seneca
#philosophy #stoiscism #grownostr
"For whose benefit, then, did I learn it all? If it was for your own benefit that you learnt it you have no call to fear that your troubles may have been wasted.
" To me, says Democritus, a single man is a crowd, and a crowd a single man. Equally good is the answer given by the person whoever it was, who when asked what was the object of all the trouble he took over a piece of craftsmanship when it would never reach more than a very few people, replied: 'A few is enough for me; so is one; and so is none.'"
—Seneca
#philosophy #stoiscism #grownostr