Letters 2.5

This is my own custom; from the many things which I have read, I claim some one part for myself.

The thought for to-day is one which I discovered in Epicurus; for I am wont to cross over even into the enemy’s camp,—not as a deserter, but as a scout.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 2.5, translated by Richard Mott Gummere