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

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> 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.
If memory serves, the original has "non vitae sed scholae discimus".

                                                       Andreas