But how can our law sufficiently train the director of education himself; for as yet all has been imperfect, and nothing has been said either clear or satisfactory?
— from Laws by Plato

It seems that Satan writes the book Satanás en cuanto intenta.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

mur , m. , ouvrage de maçonnerie qui sert à faire les côtés d'une maison, etc. muraille , f. , mur. murmure , m. , bruit sourd et confus.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

“That which is always moved is eternal; but that which gives motion to something else, and is moved itself by some external cause, when that motion ceases, must necessarily cease to exist.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Along the whole length of both sides extended covered passages, connected with each other; while in the court were laid out several rockeries.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

If I bid St. Eustache call for me at dark, he will be sure not to call before; but, if I wholly neglect to bid him call, my time for escape will be diminished, since it will be expected that I return the earlier, and my absence will the sooner excite anxiety.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

These facts are, to a certain extent, intelligible, as the self-attention of primeval man, as well as of the existing races which still go naked, will not have been so exclusively confined to their faces, as is the case with the people who now go clothed.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

This number holds no manner of proportion with the infinite diversity of human actions; the multiplication of our inventions will never arrive at the variety of examples; add to these a hundred times as many more, it will still not happen that, of events to come, there shall one be found that, in this vast number of millions of events so chosen and recorded, shall so tally with any other one, and be so exactly coupled and matched with it that there will not remain some circumstance and diversity which will require a diverse judgment.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

By some evil chance our very umbrellas were new.
— from The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

And to kill the meruaile, Shall be so euer Clot.
— from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

But the vessel was taken by some English cruisers, and the little prince carried captive to King Henry, who treacherously imprisoned him at Windsor Castle.
— from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood

A sort of genetic definition may perhaps be attempted, as if we say that colour is the special sensation of the cones of the retina, or that blue is the sensation produced by a ray of light vibrating about 650,000,000,000,000 times a second; but such expressions can give no notion of our meaning to a blind man, or to any one who has never seen a blue object.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

“The black scoundrels!” exclaimed Conrad Marais, with a growl and a frown, “they are never at rest, either in times of peace or of war.”
— from The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Invest the deposits in as many more books," said Edith Charleford promptly.
— from Six Girls and the Tea Room by Marion Ames Taggart

Having thus lightened the burden of civil rule by securing effective colleagues, Kościuszko, although he did not cease to be the chief dictator of the nation, could now more freely devote himself to the immediate object of the Rising.
— from Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner