We never desire ardently what we desire 20 rationally. La Roche.
We never learn what people are by their coming to us; we must go to them if we wish to know what they are made of, and see how they conduct or misconduct their surroundings. Goethe.
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging for being happy, it cannot be but that we never are so. Pascal.
We never love truly but once. It is the first time. Succeeding passions are less involuntary. Du Cœur.
We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice; while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our idea as a person to whom we have, in some measure, forfeited our freedom. Goldsmith.
We never see anything isolated in Nature, 25 but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it. Goethe.
We never sufficiently consider that a language is properly only symbolical, only figurative, and expresses objects never immediately, but only in reflection; yet how difficult it is not to put the sign in place of the thing, always to keep the thing as it is (das Wesen) before one's mind, and not annihilated by the expression (das Wort). Goethe.
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. Vauvenargues.
We ought certainly to despise malice if we cannot oppose it. Goldsmith.
We ought not, in general, to take the opinions of others upon trust, but to reason and judge for ourselves. Locke.