Careful Words

sufficient (adj.)

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 99.

  My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

  Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

New Testament: Matthew vi. 34.