Re: Non scol... sed vita... discimus

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:38:12 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:

>Hey!
>
>My father, cramming together his knowledge of Latin wanted to know if
>the sentence "Non scholae sed vita discimus" is correct and which cases
>there are -- Though this piece of Latin is what I found on Google. My
>dad said first said it'd be "Non scholam sed vitae discimus". When I
>told him about what I found on Google he wasn't sure anymore.
When I google for "Non scholae sed vita discimus", then google asks me:

> Did you mean: "non scholae sed vitae discimus"
This is also how I remembered this saying, 'we don't learn for school, but
for life'. Both nouns are in dative.

The internet doesn't make quite clear whether this is a litteral quote or
not, but it seems to be based on Seneca, Epistulae 106, 12.

kry@s:
j. 'mach' wust

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