"Crimes often return to their teacher."-SENECA, THYESTES, 311
("범죄는 종종 그들의 교사에게 돌아간다." - 세네카, 티에스테스, 311 )
It's ironic that Seneca would have one of his characters utter this line. As we know, for many years Seneca served as the tutor and mentor to the emperor Nero. There is a lot of evidence that Seneca was, in fact, a positive moral influence on the deranged young man, but even at the time, Seneca's contemporaries found it strange that a philosopher would serve as the right hand to such an evil person. They even used the Greek word tyrannodidaskalos-tyrant teacher-to describe him. And just as Shakespeare observed in Macbeth, "Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague th'inventor," Seneca's collaboration with Nero ultimately ended with the student murdering the teacher.
It's something to think about when you consider whom to work with and whom to do business with in life. If you show a client how to do something unethical or illegal, might they return the favor to an unsuspecting you later on? If you provide a bad example to your employees, to your associates, to your children, might ...
매번 읽으면서 이 사람의 철학적 관점은 참 배울 점이 많다고 생각했는데, 이 사람의 일대기를 공부(단순한 검색 정도)할 생각을 안했었습니다. 네로에 의해서 죽었다는 것도 지금 알았어요. ㅡㅜ 누구와 함께하는지는 그 어떤 가치보다 최상위에 있는 것이라고 믿었던 저에게 중요한 메시지를 던져준 글입니다. 감사합니다.