Letter II

from Moral Letters to Lucilius · tr. Richard Mott Gummere (1917)

Letter II

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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