Seneca, Epistles 115.8

ID: 3635367C-70FF-40C3-B97B-2E19B84557F2
TRANSLATOR: Long
CATEGORY: [[id:28D89B70-5B87-4AB6-86AF-123E6B3C95B2][Externals]]
AUTHOR: Seneca
TEXT: Epistles

What worthless items we admire; we are just like children, who set great store by their playthings and care more about any cheap trinket than they do about a sibling or even a parent. As Aristo says, how are we different from them, except that we with our statues and paintings have a more expensive form of silliness?