Slavery, then, does not attack the American Union directly in its interests, but indirectly in its manners.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[Wang Hsi`s note is: "This means, the general is angry without cause, and at the same time does not appreciate the ability of his subordinate officers; thus he arouses fierce resentment and brings an avalanche of ruin upon his head."] 18.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

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— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

[pg 203] (metamorphosis), but this form itself, although it is already objectivity of will at this grade, does not attain to a full expression of its Idea.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

In calling them myths and denying that what they describe falls within the purview of science, we do not assert that, absolutely taken, they could not be objects of a possible experience.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And as he cast his eyes around, he viewed, and he admired, the commanding situation of the city, the strength and beauty of the walls and public edifices, the capacious harbor, crowded with innumerable vessels, the perpetual concourse of distant nations, and the arms and discipline of the troops.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I understand you, he replied; not perfectly, for you seem to me to be describing a task which is really tremendous; but, at any rate, I understand you to say that knowledge and being, which the science of dialectic contemplates, are clearer than the notions of the arts, as they are termed, which proceed from hypotheses only: these are also contemplated by the understanding, and not by the senses: yet, because D they start from hypotheses and do not ascend to a principle, those who contemplate them appear to you not to exercise the higher reason upon them, although when a first principle is added to them they are cognizable by the higher reason.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“The few seconds that are saved in the course of the day by writing ill instead of well, do not amount to an object of time by any means equivalent to the disgrace or ridicule of a badly written scrawl.”
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

One wonders, after reading it, that the writer himself did not attain to a loftier and more spiritual development of life and art; and one cannot help feeling the reason was that he did not sufficiently heed the warning of Plotinus, not to let ourselves become entangled in sensuous beauty, which will engulf us as in a swamp.
— from Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor) Spurgeon

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— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

It drew near; and then a torrential downpour of tropical rain beat down on the Station.
— from Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

But though he spoke with an assured tone, he was shaken, and almost regretted that he did not accept the aid which was offered to him.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

What will they do now, after this affair of last night?"
— from The Jew by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

They do not appear to act for themselves, impelled by inner force.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll