Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
Interpretation
Books provide profound joy and deep connections with readers.
Plutarch suggests that books are not just sources of information, but they engage us on an emotional and intellectual level, fostering a sense of intimacy and companionship. They resonate with us deeply, offering insights and reflections that enhance our understanding of life.
In practice
During a book club meeting, you can quote this to emphasize the emotional connection books create.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
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