We do not die wholly at our deaths; we have mouldered away gradually long before. Hazlitt.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Mme. Swetchine.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Rousseau.
We do not teach one another the lessons of 35 honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solitude that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other. Thoreau.
We don't always care most for those flat-pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. Holmes.
We draw the foam from the great river of humanity with our quills, and imagine to ourselves that we have caught floating islands at least. Goethe.
We eagerly lay hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passion. Goethe.
We easily dispense with what was never our own. Platen.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our 40 doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment. Jacobi.
We estimate (lit. measure) great men by their virtue, not by their success. Corn. Nep.