petenda est / Externis virtus incomitata bonis —In your judgment virtue needs no reward, and is to be sought for her own sake, unaccompanied by external benefits.
— 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.

—¿Qué he de decirle de doña Rosarito, sino que es el vivo retrato de su madre?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon[obs3], panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac[obs3], ptisan[obs3]. agueweed[obs3], arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset[obs3], calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts[Chem]; feverroot[obs3], feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina[obs3]; sassafras, yarrow.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The mistake is connected with the equally erroneous view—which Hobbes controverts in his usual forcible style—that “the Felicity of this life consisteth in the repose of a mind satisfied”; and it has also some affinity with the widespread view—which has left its mark on more than one European language—that labour, strenuous activity, is essentially painful.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Mrs. Erlynne enters , very beautifully dressed and very dignified .
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

he or him, also Efyrnig, n. a yearling goat Effaith, n. an effect Effeithiad, n. effectuation Effeithio, v. to effectuate Effeithiol, a. effectual Effeithiolaeth, n. effectuation Effeithioldeb, n. efficaciousness Effeithioli, v. to effectuate Effro, a. agitated; awake Effroad, n. rousing, waking Effroi, v. to rouse; to wake Effrom, a. haughty, stubborn Eg, n. that is open; acre Egalen, n. whetstone Egawr, n. an opening Egfaen, n. a haw, a berry Egin, n. germ, shoots, blades Eginad, n. a germination Egino, v. to germinate Eginol, a. germinant, shooting Eginyn, n. a germ, a shoot Eglau, n. a bank; a gulf Eglog, a. gaping, yawning Eglur, a. bright, clear, plain Eglurâad, n. explanat
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

From the fifth sitting the portrait impressed everyone, especially Vronsky, not only by its resemblance, but by its characteristic beauty.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Er ist ein Ganzes, eine Einheit vielfacher, innig verbundner Kräfte, und zu diesem Ganzen muss das Kunstwerk reden —Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being.
— 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.

[quamvis] omnia, [154] quae cognitione digna sint, summo otio secum ipse consideret et contempletur, tamen, si solitudo tanta sit, ut hominem videre non possit, excedat e vita.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Non ignotum esse Excellentiæ vestræ arbitramur, priuilegia quædam à potentissimo Cæsare Musulmanico domino vestro clementissimo subditis nostris Anglicis concessa esse, vt illis liceat in omnibus imperij Musulmarnici prouincijs tutò et securé manere ac negotiari: non aliter quàm hoc ipsum Francis, Polonis, Venetis Germanis antea indultum est.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

Au contraire si vous ne croyez à la presente l’Ettre Malediction viendra sur vous et sur vos Enfants, et vos Bestiaux seront maudits, je vous envoierez Guerre, Peste, et Famine et Douleur, et l’Angoisse de Cœur, et pour Marque de ma juste colère et dure Vengeance vous voirez signes prodigieux dans les Astres et
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

The whole poem is in Murray’s English edition, Vol.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thus, by the time the Danes had settled in England, every vill and tun had got into the hands of some lord or thane, or was in the king's hands.
— from Social Life in England Through the Centuries by H. R. Wilton Hall

Except for the count, all are virtuous persons in that story, even extraordinarily virtuous.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

Mariæ gloriosæ exorta est flamma et incendium periculosum in platea Burgondia; eadem similiter ebdomade exortum est incendium altera vice, de platea Csapo de domo inquilinari Stephani literati, multas domos ... in cinerem redegit, et quod majus inter cætera est, nobilissimi quoque templi divi Andreæ et turris tecturæ combustæ sunt, ex qua turri et ejus pinnaculo, gallus etiam æreus, a multis annis insomniter dies ac noctes jejuno stomacho stans et in omnes partes advigilans, flammam ignis sufferre non valens, invitus devolare, descendere et illam suam solitam stationem deserere coactus est, qui gallus tantæ cladis commiserescens ac nimio dolore obmutescens de pinnaculo desiliendio, collo confracto in terram coincidens et suæ vitæ propriæ quoque non parcens, fidele suum servitium invitus derelinquendo, misere expiravit et vitam suam finivit sic."
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

He was finally turned adrift by his employer with two guineas in his pocket, but before his death his list of published books exceeded eighty volumes!
— from Genius in Sunshine and Shadow by Maturin Murray Ballou

Totherwayville, the Animal Town V. An Electrical Error VI.
— from Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs

This manuscript is entitled “ Ephemeris Vitæ , or Diary of my own Life, containing an account likewise of the most observable and remarkable things that I have taken notice of from my youth up hitherto.”
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster

Edinburgh Journal ; and The Examiner , Example V.—"Lament of the Slave."—Eight
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown