Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.