Seneca the Younger Quotes About Reading

• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reading, Writing, Advice

• Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reading, Beneficial, Delightful

• 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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