Pride And Curiosity Are The Two Scourges

All We Do Is To Look After The Opinions And Learning Of Others: We Ought To Make Them Our Own.

Human Wisdom Makes As Ill Use Of Her Talent When She Exercises It In Rescinding From The Number And Sweetness Of Those Pleasures That Are Naturally Our Due, As She Employs It Favorably And Well In Artificially Disguising And Tricking Out The Ills Of Life To Alleviate The Sense Of Them.

Learning Is A Good Medicine: But No Medicine Is Powerful Enough To Preserve Itself From Taint And Corruption Independently Of Defects In The Jar That It Is Kept In. One Man Sees Clearly But Does Not See Straight: Consequently He Sees What Is Good But Fails To Follow It; He Sees Knowledge And Does Not Use It.

Experience Teaches That A Strong Memory Is Generally Joined To A Weak Judgment.

There Is Nothing Useless In Nature; Not Even Uselessness Itself