Learning never exhausts the mind.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
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