Aphorism #100 A Man without Illusions, a wise Christian, a philosophic Courtier.

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Aphorism #100 A Man without Illusions, a wise Christian, a philosophic Courtier.

Be all these, not merely seem to be them, still less affect to be them. Philosophy is nowadays discredited, but yet it was always the chiefest concern of the wise. The art of thinking has lost all its former repute. Seneca introduced it at Rome: it went to court for some time, but now it is considered out of place there. And yet the discovery of deceit was always thought the true nourishment of a thoughtful mind, the true delight of a virtuous soul.


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[cafolini]

It is clear here that Balthasar was a student of Seneca, from who he only left behind the naivete of social contracts. I never called Seneca a philosopher. Philo-sophy was out of place since its inception. That's unless one can say beware of affectation as one would say beware of pit bull. Plato's smelling police?