X. So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

So long, therefore, as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, the mind's power, whereby it endeavours to understand things (IV. xxvi.), is not impeded, and therefore it is able to form clear and distinct ideas and to deduce them one from another (II. xl. note.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Nobody suggests that now in peace our armies shall amplify their commissariat by enforced contributions, that our navy shall redouble its economies by supplementary piracy, or that our tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court shall eke out a salary by requisitions on the suitors, to the end that each of these departments may be in some measure “self-supporting.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But Ethel could think of nothing and talk of nothing but the frightful change in her friend, and the unceasing misery which had produced it.
— from The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr

So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics — Part 5 by Benedictus de Spinoza

So long, therefore, as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, the mind's power, whereby it endeavours to understand things (IV:xxvi.), is not impeded, and therefore it is able to form clear and distinct ideas and to deduce them one from another (II:xl.Note.ii.
— from Ethics — Part 5 by Benedictus de Spinoza

And thereafter, in the custom of men who have pledged blood brotherhood, each called the other, not by the other's name, but by his own.
— from A Son Of The Sun by Jack London