Irresolution loosens all our joints; like an ague, it shakes not this limb or that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man hatches nothing, but addles all his actions. Feltham.
Irritabis crabrones—You will irritate the hornets. 50 Plaut.
Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. George Eliot.
Irrthum verlässt uns nie; doch ziehet ein höher Bedürfniss immer den strebenden Geist leise zur Wahrheit hinan—Error never leaves us, yet a higher need always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth. Goethe.
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem? Thomas à Kempis.
Is any place so inaccessible that an ass laden with gold cannot penetrate? Philip of Macedon to a scout who pronounced a certain territory impregnable.
Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heavens light vain. Pierpont.
Is cadet ante senem, qui sapit ante diem—He 5 will die before he is old who is prematurely wise. Pr.
Is common opinion the standard of merit? Thomas à Kempis.
Is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur—Such was the public temper, that some few dared to perpetrate the vilest crimes, more were fain to do so, and all looked passively on. Tac.