“Socrates is reported to have replied, when a certain person complained of having received no benefit from his travels: “It serves you right! You travelled in your own company!””
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
Angus King (1944) United States Senator from Maine
Bowdoin Academic Spotlight interview (2011)
Context: One of the real benefits of any travel is gaining some perspective. You see things from different points of view. That came home to me in a variety of ways: politically, economically, seeing what was going on in other states.
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher
trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 153
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
“Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
Nusquam est qui ubique est. Vitam in peregrinatione exigentibus hoc evenit, ut multa hospitia habeant, nullas amicitias.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 2.
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
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tr. George Long (1888)
The Enchiridion (c. 135)
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Variant: Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
