Slow Read and Read in Context

Slow Read

Slow Read is a Pro widget. It shows one sentence at a time from a real passage, so the text arrives in pieces across your day without you opening an app. This one is from Epictetus, Discourses and Enchiridion (selection), George Long translation:

• Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet.
• Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you.
• Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency.
• Suppose that it passes by you.
• Do not detain it.
• Suppose that it is not yet come to you.
• Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite …

Read in Context

A line on its own can mean anything. Read in Context opens a historic line in the words around it, exactly as printed. Free opens one passage a day, and Pro opens every line.

Here is what surrounds “Anger often comes to us, but we often go to it.” in Seneca, Of Anger, Aubrey Stewart translation:

A large part of mankind manufacture their own grievances either by entertaining unfounded suspicions or by exaggerating trifles. Anger often comes to us, but we often go to it. It ought never to be sent for: even when it falls in our way it ought to be flung aside. No one says to himself, “I myself have done or might have done this very thing which I am angry with another for doing.” No one considers the intention of the doer, but merely the thing …