/ 45 Si ventri bene, si lateri pedibusque tuis, nil / Divitiæ poterunt regales addere majus —That man is not poor who has a sufficiency for all his wants.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Now, if he be a man of parts and of right nature, royalty adds very little to his happiness; “Si ventri bene, si lateri est, pedibusque tuffs, nil Divitix poterunt regales addere majus;” [“If it is well with thy belly, thy side and thy feet, regal wealth will be able to add nothing.”—Horace, Ep., i. 12, 5.] he discerns ‘tis nothing but counterfeit and gullery.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

[3752] Si ventri bene, si lateri, pedibusque tuis, nil Divitiae poterunt regales addere majus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In France, the different revenue laws which take place in the different provinces, require a multitude of revenue officers to surround, not only the frontiers of the kingdom, but those of almost each particular province, in order either to prevent the importation of certain goods, or to subject it to the payment of certain duties, to the no small interruption of the interior commerce of the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

So died Pellegrino Rossi, a man who undoubtedly deserved a better fate; but who was thrust upon a position and a time which required a man of genius and humanity; while he had nothing to give but cut-and-dried
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

Son of the defunct Prosper Robert and Marie Catherine Guillon; widower of his first wife Josephe Cecile Eglantine Houdin; married the second time to Françoise Marguerite Olympe Naconnier; Court House of St. Gervais, signed—The Mayor.”
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans

So natural that she did not wish those disagreeable passionate relationships: a man could not expect that sort of thing from his wife!
— from Six Women by Victoria Cross

The lamps and candles are so poor that only rarely, when there is a great festival or imperative work to be performed, do persons remain about many hours after sunset.
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

The nettles, however, and coarse grasses, dry brown stems of dead plants, rushes, and moss still in some sense cover the earth of the mound, and among them the rabbits sit out in their forms.
— from Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

[276] is decidedly plain; rather a Montagu cut about her.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

The coin referred to is the gold Venetian sequin, which is still found in considerable numbers in the south, and bears the names of the Doges (Paul Rainer, Aloy Mocen, Ludov Manin, etc.) and a cross, which the Natives mistake for a toddy palm.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Spent the day pleasantly, reading aloud most of the time Covenant and Enquirer .
— from An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

On thy dear portrait rests alone my view, Which nor Praxiteles nor Xeuxis drew, But a more bold and cunning pencil framed.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca