Reading and Writing - Seneca

Reading and Writing - Seneca
Neither one nor the other but both.

H/T Teodora Petkova

Originally shared by Teodora Petkova

Seneca on Reading and Writing

I hope Seneca won't  mind :) (esp. the colours)
Here's the full quote from Epistle LXXXIV ON GATHERING IDEAS and also a praise for the digital Loeb Classical Library for making this so accessible. (http://goo.gl/mP6Fod)


Reading nourishes the mind and refreshes it when it is wearied with study; nevertheless, this refreshment is not obtained without study. 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.