The more thou knowest, and the better thou understandest, the more grievously shalt thou be judged, unless thy life be the more holy.
Be not therefore lifted up; but rather let the knowledge given thee make thee afraid.
If thou thinkest that thou knowest much: yet there are many more things which thou knowest not.
Be not over wise, but rather acknowledge thine own ignorance.
The highest and most profitable lesson is, the true knowledge of ourselves.
It is great wisdom to esteem ourselves nothing, and to think always well and highly of others.
We are all frail, but remember, none more frail than thyself.
[December 9.]
It is good that we be sometimes contradicted; and that men think ill of us, and this, although we do not intend well.