=Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the= 5 =signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore and called it gold.= _Shelley._
=Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well.= _Emerson._
=Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.= _Johnson._
=Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.= _Emerson._
=Committunt multi eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulerit, hic diadema=--How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.
=Common as light is love, / And its familiar= 10 =voice wearies not ever.= _Shelley._
=Common chances common men can bear.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 1.
=Common distress is a great promoter both of friendship and speculation.= _Swift._
=Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Common men are apologies for men; they= 15 =bow the head, excuse themselves with prolix reasons, and accumulate appearances, because the substance is not.= _Emerson._
=Common-place people see no difference between one man and another.= _Pascal._
=Common-sense is calculation applied to life.= _Amiel._
=Common-sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.= _W. R. Alger._
=Common-sense is the genius of humanity.= _Goethe._
=Common-sense is the measure of the possible;= 20 =it is calculation applied to life.= _Amiel._
=Common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls, with what they are.= _Emerson._
=Communautés commencent par bâtir leur cuisine=--Communities begin with building their kitchen. _Fr. Pr._
=Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio=--A shipwreck (disaster) that is common is a consolation to all. _Pr._
=Commune periculum concordiam parit=--A common 25 danger tends to concord. _L._
=Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia=--All things are common among friends. _Ter._
=Communibus annis=--One year with another.
=Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.= _J. G. Holland._