Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat. , Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget. ]
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself. )
Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). " Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject. . . . This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat. , Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas. ]
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat. , Adolescentem verecundum esse decet. ]
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.