Hence you discover the mistake of Sardanapalus, the wealthiest king of the Assyrians, who ordered it to be engraved on his tomb, I still have what in food I did exhaust; But what I left, though excellent, is lost.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hence, it may be assumed that such illusions occur in great number and even in large dimensions.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“A town captured by the enemy is like a maid who has lost her honor,” thought he (he had said so to Túchkov at Smolénsk).
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But if an invasion is made on their country, they make use of such men, if they have good bodies, though they are not brave; and either put them aboard their ships, or place them on the walls of their towns, that being so posted, they may find no opportunity of flying away; and thus either shame, the heat of action, or the impossibility of flying, bears down their cowardice; they often make a virtue of necessity, and behave themselves well, because nothing else is left them.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

After many protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would After dinner my wife comes up to me and all friends again After oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb After some pleasant talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed After a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends Again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart Agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve under) All ended in love All the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore All made much worse in their report among people than they are All the fleas came to him and not to me All divided that were bred so long at school together All may see how slippery places all courtiers stand in All things to be managed with faction All the innocent pleasure in the world All the towne almost going out of towne (Plague panic)
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But it is an evil infinitely less likely to attend us in a united than in a disunited state; nay, it may be safely asserted that it is an evil altogether unlikely to attend us in the latter situation.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Then, turning to Mercédès, he inquired, “Who is this gentleman?” “One who will be your best friend, Dantès, for he is my friend, my cousin, my brother; it is Fernand—the man whom, after you, Edmond, I love the best in the world.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

She was a Spanish dancer, known as Donna Rita, and had been creating a furore in St. Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, all over the civilised world, in fact, except in London, where she was announced as likely to appear during the approaching season.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He was Tombes, of Leominster, who had been mobbed in that town of woolstaplers, and driven out of it by drunken roughs; no doubt the progenitors of those who in the late Parliamentary election in like manner dishonoured themselves.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

Each of these quarters should be supposed to contain a four-sided district, its northern side being of one-half of the parallel next the pole, its southern by the half of the equator, and its remaining sides by two segments of the circle drawn through the poles, opposite to each other, and equal in length.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

Enclose in little squares of the home made paste described above, and cook and serve as in the preceding recipe for Ravioli .
— from Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens Sold to aid the Families of Italian Soldiers by Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti

And I passed the night composing the following epitaph in Latin: D. O. M. HIC JACET IN SPE BEATAE AETERNITATIS DOMINUS HIERONYMUS COIGNARD PRESBYTER QUONDAM IN BELLOVACENSI COLLEGIO ELOQUENTILE MAGISTER
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

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— from The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan

Hell enough, in long severe sorrow and struggle; as the like of him is pretty sure to have been.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

However, as his talents were superior to every difficulty, he framed so dextrous an account of his being a merchant, having been taken and plundered by the enemy, and of his great effects in London, that he was not only heartily regaled by the fisherman at his house, but made so handsome a booty by way of borrowing, a method of taking which we have before mentioned to have his approbation, that he was enabled to provide himself with a place in the stage-coach; which (as God permitted it to perform the journey) brought him at the appointed time to an inn in the metropolis.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

"I tell you everything I learn.
— from The Net by Rex Beach