#Deprecated horse summoning mount free

So you should always read standard authors and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before. '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. And in reading of many books is distraction.ДЄccordingly, since you cannot read all the books which you may possess, it is enough to possess only as many books as you can read. There is nothing so efficacious that it can be helpful while it is being shifted about. Food does no good and is not assimilated into the body if it leaves the stomach as soon as it is eaten nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent change of medicine no wound will heal when one salve is tried after another a plant which is often moved can never grow strong. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. 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. You do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit. Judging by what you write me, and by what I hear, I am forming a good opinion regarding your future. Of that which remains at the bottom, the amount is slight, and the quality is vile. For, as our ancestors believed, it is too late to spare when you reach the dregs of the cask. I advise you, however, to keep what is really yours and you cannot begin too early. What is the state of things, then? It is this: I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him. My situation, however, is the same as that of many who are reduced to slender means through no fault of their own: every one forgives them, but no one comes to their rescue. I cannot boast that I waste nothing, but I can at least tell you what I am wasting, and the cause and manner of the loss I can give you the reasons why I am a poor man. I confess frankly: my expense account balances, as you would expect from one who is free-handed but careful. You may desire to know how I, who preach to you so freely, am practising. What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity, - time! And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. Therefore, Lucilius, do as you write me that you are doing: hold every hour in your grasp. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death the major portion of death has already passed. The most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to carelessness.ДЇurthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose. Make yourself believe the truth of my words, - that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and that others glide beyond our reach.

#Deprecated horse summoning mount free

Greetings from Seneca to his friend Lucilius.Д¬ontinue to act thus, my dear Lucilius - set yourself free for your own sake gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands.