"We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will..."

“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.”

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Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius (via ludimagister)

read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

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