[Greek: ouden ginetai ek tou mê ontos]—Nothing comes to be out of what is not. Epicurus.
[Greek: ouden rhêma syn kerdei kakon]—No word that is profitable is bad. Soph.
Oui et Non sont bien courts à dire, mais avant que de les dire, il y faut penser long-temps—"Yes" and "no" are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
[Greek: ouk agathon polykoiraniê; heis koiranos estô, / Heis basileus]—That there should be a multitude of rulers is not good; let one be lord, one be king. Hom.
[Greek: ouk aischron ouden tôn anankaiôn brotois]—What is natural is never shameful. Eurip.
[Greek: ouk estin meizôn basanos chronou oudenos ergou, / hos kai hypo sternois andros edeixe noon]—There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thought which lay hidden in his breast. Simonides.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, / Our 5 fatal shadows that walk by us still. Fletcher.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. Emerson.
Our affections are but tents of a night. Emerson.
Our affections, as well as our bodies, are in perpetual flux. Rousseau.