One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers. Manu.
One murder made a villain; / Millions, a hero. 10 Bp. Porteous.
One must be careful in announcing great happiness. Schopenhauer.
One must be somebody in order to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. Mme. Swetchine.
One must be something in order to do something. Goethe.
One must believe in simplicity, in what is simple, in what is originally productive, if one wants to go the right way. This, however, is not granted to every one; we are born in an artificial state, and it is far easier to make it more artificial still than to return to what is simple. Goethe.
One must have lived greatly whose record 15 would bear the full light of day from its beginning to its close. A. B. Alcott.
One must not look a gift horse in the mouth. Pr.
One must not swerve in one's self, not even a hair's breadth from the highest maxims of art and life; but in empiricism, in the movement of the day, I would rather allow what is mediocre to pass than mistake the good, or even find fault with it. Goethe.
One must take a pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel. Goethe.