Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis; / 35 Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis—Don't contend with words against wordy people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few. Cato.
Contredire, c'est quelquefois frapper à une porte, pour savoir s'il y a quelqu'un dans la maison—To contradict sometimes means to knock at the door in order to know whether there is any one in the house. Fr. Pr.
Contre fortune bon cœur—Against change of fortune set a bold heart. Fr. Pr.
Contre les rebelles, c'est cruauté que d'estre humain et humanité d'estre cruel—Against rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity to be cruel. Corneille Muis.
Contre-temps—A mischance. Fr.
Contrivances of the time / For sowing broadcast 40 the seeds of crime. Longfellow.
Contumeliam si dicis, audies—If you utter abuse, you must expect to receive it. Plaut.
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. Gibbon.
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. Emerson.
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. A. B. Alcott.