Its real historical effect, its fatal effect, remains precisely the increase of egotism, of individual egotism, to excess (to the extreme which consists in the belief in individual immortality).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If report be true, however, he did not voluntarily exchange imprisonment for exile; racks were shown him; and by the act of banishment was placed a poisonous draught.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

They escaped to these higher themes but narrowly, for Coote and Mrs. Walshingham, subtle chaperones both, and each indisposed for excellent reasons to encumber Kipps and Helen, were hot upon their heels.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The word signifies a deceiver, which eliminates it from every religious association.—A. W. [29] Manu VII.
— from India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The inner envelope is firm, elastic, rigid and, to a certain point, brittle.
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre

There is therefore nothing real but the Eternal itself; for every Real, or every thing that is, is only a number and only exists by virtue of a number.” Ibid., Aphorism 105-107:—“Arithmetic is the science of the second idea, or that of time or motion, or life.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

The question was amply debated; but as, on the one hand, little doubt was felt about the rapid conquest of Canada by militia and volunteers, so, on the other, the same disposition to trust to extemporized irregular forces encouraged reliance simply upon privateering.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

But Gracchus contented himself with enacting that the soldier's clothing should be given him free of charge by the State.[612] Another military abuse was due to the difficulty which commanders experienced in finding efficient recruits.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

There is, therefore, nothing real but the Eternal itself; for every Real, or everything that is, is only 14 a number and only exists by virtue of a number.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

In fact, it is extra insurance for extra risks.
— from Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery by George W. (George William) Bell