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Progress is not achieved by leisurely browsing through books.
Epictetus · Discourses · paraphrase
What it means today

Reading about virtue is the gymnasium; living it is the game. The student who reads a hundred books but never trains the will has not progressed — only informed himself.

Try this todayConvert one idea you have read recently into one action you take this week.
Today’s questionAm I collecting ideas, or training my character?
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