It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.