“There are three kinds of life, and it is a stock question which of the three is the best: the first is devoted to pleasure, the second to contemplation, the third to action. I admit that the difference is considerable, nevertheless the one does not exist apart from the other (…)
With what purpose do I state this? To prove that all men are fond of contemplation. Some make it the object of their lives: to us it is an anchorage, but not a harbour.”
From: L. Annaeus Seneca, Minor Dialogs Together with the Dialog “On Clemency”; Translated by Aubrey Stewart, Book VIII / Section 7. Bohn’s Classical Library Edition; London, George Bell and Sons, 1900
