We must not judge of despots by the temporary successes which the possession of power enabled them to achieve, but by the state in which they leave their country at their death or at their fall. Mme. de Staël.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law. Meas. for Meas., ii. 1.
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. Sharp.
We must not regard what the many say of us; but what he, the one man who has understanding of just and unjust, will say, and what the truth will say. Plato.
We must not stand upon trifles. Cervantes.
We must not stint / Our necessary actions, in 5 the fear / To cope malicious censurers; which ever, / As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow / That is new trimmed, but benefit no further / Than vainly longing. Hen. VIII., i. 2.
We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. Thomas à Kempis.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. Goethe.
We must put up with our contemporaries, since we can neither live with our ancestors nor posterity. George Eliot.
We must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace. Thomas à Kempis.