M. Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont 10 les nôtres, / Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu —We listen to no instincts but such as are our own, and we believe in no misfortune till it comes.
— 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.

Dicho esto, no comparto la idea pesimista según
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

party,—neither then could king, prelate, or puritan,—alone or united, suppress an organ, which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch, [530] and library, at the same time.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Onde l'altro lebbroso, che m'intese, rispuose al detto mio: <e Niccolo` che la costuma ricca del garofano prima discoverse ne l'orto dove tal seme s'appicca; e tra'ne la brigata in che disperse Caccia d'Ascian la vigna e la gran fonda, e l'Abbagliato suo senno proferse.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Ud. ve, a unos mil kilómetros de Valparaíso, y continuar su viaje hasta Buenos Aires; de allí es posible seguir hacia el norte, cruzar los ríos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A Visit to the Residency—Cawnpore—The Adjutant Bird and the Hindoo Corpse—The Taj Mahal—The True Conception—The Ice Storm—True Gems—Syrian Fountains—An Exaggerated Niagara CHAPTER LX.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

La coda de caualo et nitriſſe como lui ge ne ſonno aſaysimi in queſta tera haueua a li piedi albarghe de le medeſme pelle q̃ copreno li piedi a vzo de ſcarpe et nella mano vno archo curto et groſſo.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

He spent the entire night calmly listening to all these stories, speaking a word of good cheer where it would be of service.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

"It is a book of rarest value, in which every nobleman can learn how to be faithful to his king in dire misfortune and to the gates of death.
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

In my way I noticed a new species of Stellaria ( Callitriche ), of a small size, not leafy at the top, erect, not creeping like the S. minor ; (see Fl. Lapp.
— from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 2 by Carl von Linné

Law of New England not common law, 550 .
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

If some prejudices passed away under the Napoleonic rule, many more still remained, and possibly, to eradicate so old an evil, no cure less drastic than universal servitude would have sufficed.
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

Council of Ministers chosen by the president on the advice of the chancellor elections: president elected by direct popular vote for a six-year term; presidential election last held 19 April 1998 (next to be held in the spring of 2004); chancellor traditionally chosen by the president from the plurality party in the National Council; vice chancellor chosen by the president on the advice of the chancellor note: government coalition - OeVP and FPOe election results: Thomas KLESTIL reelected president; percent of vote - Thomas KLESTIL 63%, Gertraud KNOLL 14%, Heide SCHMIDT 11%, Richard LUGNER 10%, Karl NOWAK 2% Legislative branch: bicameral Federal Assembly or Bundesversammlung consists of Federal Council or Bundesrat (64 members; members represent each of the states on the basis of population, but with each state having at least three representatives; members serve a four- or six-year term) and the National Council or Nationalrat (183 seats; members elected by direct popular vote to serve four-year terms) election results: National Council - percent of vote by party - OeVP 42.3%, SPOe 36.9%, FPOe 10.2%, Greens 9%; seats by party - OeVP 79, SPOe 69, FPOe 19, Greens 16 elections: National Council - last held 24 November 2002 (next to be held in the fall of 2006)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Whilst, therefore, the Nawab was determined to make all the European nations contribute largely in honour of his accession, and in atonement for their insolence in fortifying themselves without his permission, he had special reasons for beginning with the English.
— from Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Samuel Charles Hill

The authors of all these revolts, the instigators of their fellow-subjects' treason, have been discovered; and if your grace have leisure for such sad business, I will even now crave leave to lay before you the particulars of a most daring plot, which, through the activity of good Sir Payan Wileton, I have been enabled to detect."
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He said, with shut eyes, 'None could love me long, since none could trust me, and not I myself.'
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett