" Thereby do they win for themselves the right of attributing to the birds of prey the responsibility for being birds of prey: when the oppressed, down-trodden, and overpowered say to themselves with the vindictive guile of weakness, "Let us be otherwise than the evil, namely, good!
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Individual health is preserved by studying one's own constitution, by observing what is good or bad for one, by constant self-control in supplying physical wants and comforts (but only to the extent necessary to self-preservation), by foregoing sensual pleasures, and finally, by the professional skill of those to whose science these matters belong.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Because of this the Emperor named him Shên I, ‘the Divine Archer,’ attached him to his suite, and appointed him Chief Mechanician of all Works in Wood.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

It has been observed that the early nature-deities, reflecting the evil and good of nature, in part through the progress of human thought and ideality, and through new ethnical rivalries, were degraded into demons.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

We are indeed worse off than the clerk, for to carry out the analogy properly we must suppose him never to have been outside the telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer—in short, never, except through the telephone wire, to have come in contact with the outside universe .
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

"Then," asked Michel, "the moon must be older than the earth?" "No!" said Barbicane decidedly, "but a world which has grown old quicker, and whose formation and deformation have been more rapid.
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

But owing to the enormous numbers that there are of these birds, some of the migrating armies of them may be seen either in the autumn when they are all going due south, or on the break-up of the winter when they are all going due north.
— from Egyptian Birds For the most part seen in the Nile Valley by Charles Whymper

Julie, in her own way, was a great romantic; but owing to the economic notions of marriage, especially the whole conception of the dot , prevailing in the French or Belgian minds amid whom she had passed her later girlhood, she never dreamed for a moment of blaming Warkworth for placing money foremost in his plans of matrimony.
— from Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

So fast did the demons increase in number that they became a great band of thirty, the exact number of people supposed to have had a period put to their existence by demons.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

It is to be observed that the experience now reached is something over and above the conscious reception of daily mercies.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

Of this last-named profuse ornamenter of whatever is permitted to afford it support (the Ivy), we now too everywhere perceive the beautifully picturesque effects: though there is one effect of it, also perceived about this time, which I cannot persuade myself to be reconciled to: I mean where the trunk of a tall tree is bound about with Ivy almost to its top, which during the Summer has scarcely been distinguished as a separate growth, but which now, when the other leaves are fallen, and the outspread branches stand bare, offers to the eye, not a contrast, but a contradiction.
— from Mirror of the Months by P. G. (Peter George) Patmore