You Must Return Again and Again | If You Want To Be Steady
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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“You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works,” Seneca wrote, “if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”
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| 1:34.3 | and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words into works. You must return again and again. |
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