Seneca: Excellence of Mind Cannot Be Borrowed or Bought.

This the Ancient Temple of Garni in Armenia. This photo was taken in 2022.

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‘I have never seen such a vulgarian with such a fortune!’¹ said Seneca when he described Calvisius Sabinus, a wealthy man who had ‘both the inheritance and the character of a freedman’. His inherited wealth however was not correlated with his inherited intelligence.

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