Seneca the Younger Quotes About Books

• It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teacher, Memories, Book

• It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Doe, Matter

• I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Mind, Together

• The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Simple, Giving

• No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Profitable

• The abundance of books is distraction

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Abundance, Distraction

• It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Reading, Careful

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