Homo omne monstrum est, ille nam susperat feras, luposque et ursos pectore obscuro tegit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Emile is no savage to be banished to the desert, he is a savage who has to live in the town.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By the proposed Free Trade Union some part of the loss of organization and economic efficiency may be retrieved, which must otherwise result from the innumerable new political frontiers now created between greedy, jealous, immature, and economically incomplete nationalist States.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

He may still visit his home to ask for food; but if his sister is at home he must go away before he has eaten; if no sister is about he may sit down to eat near the door.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

the other is whether there is anything, if we consider either the principles upon which it is founded or the executive part of it, which prevents the form of government that they had proposed to follow from being observed; now it is allowed that in every well-regulated state the members of it should be free from servile labour; but in what manner this shall be effected is not so easy to determine; for the Penestse have very often attacked the Thessalians, and the Helots the Lacedaemonians, for they in a manner continually watch an opportunity for some misfortune befalling them.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

What proof have we that an eruption is not shortly about to take place?
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

I must ever hold that the principle of mere common enterprise is not sufficient—it is not sufficiently specific—it must be more limited.
— from The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping by H. Byerley (Henry Byerley) Thomson

I had only then to observe in reply, that the civil and military establishments in New South Wales, form the elements of as good society as it is the lot of the majority to command in Great Britain.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

They may appeal to good faith, because the value stipulated and expected, is not satisfied by the steps taken by the Government.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The Continental opinion which at that time often reckoned the American novelist as equal, if not superior to his British contemporary, seemed to men here like a profanation.
— from James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

The spirit of rational enquiry into nature seems, if we can judge from the uncertain and often contradictory notices handed down to us of their tenets, to have been far more alive, and less warped by this vain and arrogant turn, then than at a later period.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

By the silver hairs of his honour—and sure enough I never saw hairs more regally silver than those of your honour—by his honour’s grey silver hairs, and by my own soul, which is not worthy to be mentioned in the same day with one of them—it would be no more than decent and civil to run out and welcome such a father and son coming in at the head of such a Protestant military.’
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

Lady Allie’s contemplative eye, I noticed, searched my face to see if there were any secondary significances to that bland inquiry.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer

“My dear Mrs. Allen, I long to introduce them; they will be so delighted to see you: the tallest is Isabella, my eldest; is not she a fine young woman?
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

(Rome, 1947) ——, Ercolano 4 (Ministry of Public Instruction Guides , Rome, 1954) ——, Ercolano: I nuovi scavi (1927–1958) I (Rome, 1958) ——, Pompeii 8 (MPI Guides , Rome, 1956) L. Richardson, Jr., “Pompeii: the Casa dei Dioscuri and its Painters,” Mem. Am.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick