A word to the wise is sufficient. [ Terence ]

One tongue is sufficient for a woman. [ Attributed to Milton ]

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. [ Bible ]

A small number of choice books are sufficient. [ Voltaire ]

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. [ Napoleon I ]

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure
Which is useful to them to praise which deceives them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There is no sufficient recompense for an unjust slander. [ Proverb ]

He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

We have not always sufficient strength to employ all our reason. [ Mme. de Grignan ]

A man - be the heavens ever praised! - is sufficient for himself. [ Carlyle ]

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. [ St. Augustine ]

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [ Goethe ]

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. [ Colton ]

The belief and hope of heaven, is a sufficient encouragement to virtue, when all others fail. [ Proverb ]

To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few. [ Goldsmith ]

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice. [ Mencius ]

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. [ Metastasio, Achille ]

As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself, so the first order of charity is to be sufficient for thyself. [ John Ruskin ]

If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]

With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. [ Seneca ]

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not. [ Colton ]

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? [ Bible ]

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters; it is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. [ V. Hugo ]

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. [ Addison ]

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]

What real good does an addition to a fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. [ Goldsmith ]

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]

Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]