True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
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