Moral Letters 2.3

Reflections on Seneca

"But," you reply, "I wish to dip first into one book and then into another."

I tell you that it is the sign of an overnice appetite to toy with many dishes; for when they are manifold and varied, they cloy but do not nourish.

So you should always read standard authors; and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before.

Each day acqu…