Seneca - Moral Letters - 33: On the Futility of Learning Maxims

“…give over hoping that you can skim, by means of epitomes, the wisdom of distinguished men.”
“For a man…to chase after choice extracts and to prop his weakness by the best known and the briefest sayings and to depend upon his memory, is disgraceful; it is time for him to lean on himself”
“Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides”
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Moral Letters to Lucilius
The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years.

Translated by Richard Mott Gummere
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
(These Moral Letters are also the same letters which Tim Ferriss promotes in the Tao of Seneca)

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