Nothing would then be more expensive than virtue: for by means of it the world would ultimately be turned into a hospital: and the last conclusion of wisdom would be, "everybody must be everybody else's nurse."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The simplicity which is enforced in music is extended to gymnastic; Plato is aware that the cciii training of the body may be inconsistent with the training of the mind, and that bodily exercise may be easily overdone.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The simplicity which is enforced in music is extended to gymnastic; Plato is aware that the training of the body may be inconsistent with the training of the mind, and that bodily exercise may be easily overdone.
— from The Republic by Plato

It now appeared to say: “Bolivia extemporizes mackerel; borax esteems polygamy; sausages wither in the east.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

In the second place, a medium may be taken between the different methods which each state observes; for instance, in a democracy the right to vote in the public assembly is either confined by no census at all, or limited by a very small one; in an oligarchy none enjoy it but those whose census is high: therefore, as these two practices are contrary to each other, a census between each may be established in such a state.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Even nowadays, though the danger of being killed would be smaller—perhaps not absolutely non-existent—yet the natives would feel very uncomfortable at the idea of landing in a strange district, fearing not only death by violence, but even more by evil magic.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The dreadful vice of drunkenness, of which I shall have occasion to speak hereafter, is nowhere displayed in more revolting colours, or occurs more frequently, than in the bush; nor is it exhibited by the lower classes in so shameless a manner as by the gentlemen settlers, from whom a better example might be expected.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I am not a moralist, but a practical student of cause and effect, urging the elimination of bad causes so that bad effects may be eliminated in turn.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

Show what is wrong in the following:— 8-8 = 2-2, dividing both these equals by 2-2 the result must be equal; 8-8 divided by 2-2 = 4, and 2-2 divided by 2-2 = 1, therefore, since the quotients of equals divided by equals must be equal, 4 must be equal to 1.
— from The Puzzle King Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc. by John Scott

They still think that I alone have the golden touch, but even my being El Dorado won’t help us now that they feel I robbed them.”
— from Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery: A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure by Andy Adams

Every painting to be effective must be esoragoto; that is, there must enter therein certain artistic liberties.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

What sacrifice had General McClellan made which had not been equally made by every one of the hundred and fifty thousand men of his army?
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

Break a ray of light into its constituent colours, each is beautiful, each may be enjoyed; attempt to unite them, and perhaps you produce only a dirty white.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman