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                                    Quemadmodum omnium rerum, sic litterarum quoque intemperantia laboramus: non vitae sed scholae discimus.
                                
                            
                                        
                                        Alternate translation: Not for life, but for school do we learn. (translator unknown) 
Alternate translation: We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life. (translator unknown). 
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CVI: On the corporeality of virtue, Line 12
                                    
 
        
     
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                            