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When the philosophers in the Academy were conversing long and seriously, and afterwards some people asked Panthoidas how their conversation impressed him, he said, ‘What else than serious ? But there is no good in it unless you put it to use.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 192 B, 220 D, and 1033 B-E.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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