All 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.”
“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.”
“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”
“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.”
“No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.”
“The abundance of books is distraction”
“The abundance of books is distraction”
“It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.”
“It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.”
“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.”
“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.”

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