Seneca the Younger Quotes About Writing

• 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

• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Style, Mind

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• It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Thinking, Deceit

• I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Men, Ideas

• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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