I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason.
I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom: ["I hate the wise man, who in his own concern is not wise." -- Euripides, ap.

Cicero, Ep.Fam., xiii.

15.] Whence Ennius: "Nequidquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret." ["That wise man knows nothing, who cannot profit himself by his wisdom."-- Cicero, De Offic., iii.

15.] "Si cupidus, si Vanus, et Euganea quantumvis mollior agna." ["If he be grasping, or a boaster, and something softer than an Euganean lamb."-- Juvenal, Sat., viii.

14.] "Non enim paranda nobis solum, sed fruenda sapientia est." ["For wisdom is not only to be acquired, but to be utilised." -- Cicero, De Finib., i.