non vitae sed scholae Phrase
Meaning:
[We learn] not for life but for schooltime
Comment
From a passage of occupatio in Seneca the Younger's moral letters to Lucilius,[83] wherein Lucilius is given the argument that too much literature fails to prepare students for life
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