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“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness