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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. — Seneca

Letter

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

In the original Latin

Satius est supervacua scire quam nihil.

Seneca
65
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KnowledgeIgnorance
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65Classical antiquity
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Seneca
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Current citation
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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