Nothing More

His amplius etc. Hic tertio reprimitur curiositas auditorum, quos alioquitur sub persona filii dicens: His amplius , fili mi, ne requiras, ut semper velis audire nova; sufficit enim scire necessaria; Ecclesiastici tertio: Quae praecepit tibi Deus, illa cogita semper, et in pluribus operibus eius ne fueris curiosus. Et redditur ratio duplex huius admonitionis, quia inquisitio huius curiositatis est interminata et laboriosa. Est interminata; ideo dicit: Faciendi plures libros nullus est finis; quia curiosi nunquam tot habent, quin velint audire plures, quia nunquam volunt audire vetera, sed semper nova; unde Actuum decimo septimo: Athenienses ad nihil aliud vacabant, nisi aut dicere, aut audire aliquid novi. Ideo dicitur Danielis duodecimo: Pertransibunt plurima tempora, et multiplex erit scientia, eo quod scientia semper quodam modo renovatur. Non tantum est interminata, sed etiam laboriosa curiosa inquisitio; ideo subdit: Frequensque meditatio carnis est afflictio; Ecclesiastici trigesimo primo: Vigilia honestatis tabefaciet carnem. Est, inquam, afllictio magna, et e contrario utilitas modica, secundum quod dictum est supra octavo: Est homo, qui diebus et noctibus non capit somnum oculus. Et intellexi, quod operum Dei nullam possit homo invenire rationem eorum quae fiunt sub sole. Sanctus Bonaventura, Commentarius In Ecclesiasten, Cap XII Source: Here, p 98

Anything more than these... 1 Here he restrains the curiosity of those who hear, speaking to them under the person of a son, saying, 'Anything more than these things, O son, do not seek,' so that you are always wanting to hear something new, for it is enough to know what is needful. 2 In the third chapter of Ecclesiasticus: 'What God has commanded you, think on these things always, and do not be curious about His many works.' 3 And there is a twofold reason for this admonition: because the pursuit of such curiosity is both endless and burdensome. That it is interminable, he then says here: 'Of making many books there is no end.' Because the curious shall never have everything, since they wish to hear more, because they will not listen to old things, but must always have new things, whence it is said in the seventeenth chapter of Acts: 'The men of Athens have leisure for nothing but to to say or hear something new.' 4 And it is said in the twelfth chapter of Daniel: 'Much time will pass and knowledge shall be multiplied,' 5 because knowledge is always being renewed in a certain way. Then that this inquisitive curiosity is not only interminable but burdensome, he adds: 'And frequent meditation is a weariness of the flesh.' In the thirty first chapter of Ecclesiasticus: 'Watchfulness for wealth wearies the flesh.' 6 And it is a grave affliction, I say, but on the contrary it is moderation that is useful, according to which it was said previously in the eighth chapter: 'There is a man who for days and nights does not allow sleep to come to his eyes. And I understood that no man is able to find the reason for the works of God which are beneath the sun.' 7 Saint Bonaventura, Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 12 1 Eccles 12.12 2 Acts 17.21, Lk 10.42 3 Sirach 3.22 4 Acts 17.21 5 Dan 12.4 6 Sirach 31.1 7 Eccl 8.16-17