Sovereign

A prey to ambition, avarice, temerity, superstition, and having within me other such enemies of life, am I to go about dreaming of the world’s revolution? (Montaigne)

For doubting pleases me no less than knowing (Dante)

They never cease to be under guardianship (Seneca)

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the knowledge of goodness (Montaigne)

Now that the learned have become so numerous, good men are wanting (Seneca)

It is no time for talking, but for steering (Seneca)

They have learned to speak with others, not with themselves (Cicero)

How odious the idle, useless wight, whose mouth is stuffed with philosophic saws (Pacuvius)

The thing I most do hate is learned pedantry (Du Bellay)