“Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.” DoeSelfUseHandsLove IsDangerousSelf LoveInstrumentsHarmWounds Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.” IfsGivingMindWellsUseHandsWould BeTogetherPerfectLearningDangerousMastersWeaponsWoundsImprovementPerceiveEvidentThoroughFuse Author:Michel de Montaigne
“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.” DoeShowsBodyRunningDangerousConscienceStonesWoundsBulletsExhaustingBrakeStags Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing