Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.
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.
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself. )
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. ]
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. ]
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?
A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.
