To which Don Quixote replied, "Wounds received in battle confer honour instead of taking it away; and so, friend Panza, say no more, but, as I told thee before, get up as well as thou canst and put me on top of thy beast in whatever fashion pleases thee best, and let us go hence ere night come on and surprise us in these wilds."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Whether it was because she doubted my discretion or from habitual reserve, she was so particular that, even when I saw her in bed, my longing eyes never could obtain a sight of anything but her head.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“It may be true that he went mounted as your worship says,” answered Sancho, “but there is a great difference between going mounted and going slung like a sack of manure.” To which Don Quixote replied, “Wounds received in battle confer honour instead of taking it away; and so, friend Panza, say no more, but, as I told thee before, get up as well as thou canst and put me on top of thy beast in whatever fashion pleases thee best, and let us go hence ere night come on and surprise us in these wilds.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

From the extremity of the promontory which formed the tail of the peninsula the coast was rounded for a distance of five miles, which was rapidly passed over, without even the most minute investigations bringing to light the least trace of any old or recent landings; no debris, no mark of an encampment, no cinders of a fire, nor even a footprint!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

"Let them [the realists] try the experiment of conceiving perceptions as pure natural events, not cases of awareness or apprehension, and they will be surprised to see how little they miss.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Let him dare to face once more the man he has so courageously injured; danger shall teach him morality, and vengeance justice—let him come, and receive my sword in his heart!' The vehemence, with which this was uttered, gave Emily new cause of alarm, who arose from her chair, but her trembling frame refused to support her, and she resumed her seat;—the words died on her lips, and, when she looked wistfully towards the door of the corridor, which was locked, she considered it was impossible for her to leave the apartment, before Morano would be apprised of, and able to counteract, her intention.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Kaut, however, propounds a second entirely new class of actions which are performed without any interest, i.e. , without motive.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

In a few instances personal injuries of a more or less serious nature were sustained, but it is not a little remarkable, that here, as elsewhere in the immediate neighbourhood, while there were many narrow escapes no case of a fatal character occurred.
— from The Blizzard in the West Being as Record and Story of the Disastrous Storm which Raged Throughout Devon and Cornwall, and West Somerset, On the Night of March 9th, 1891 by Unknown

After death, Life: man created new, ingeniously Perfect for a vindictive purpose now, That man, first fashioned in beneficence, Was proved a failure; intellect at length Replacing old obtuseness, memory Made mindful of delinquent's bygone deeds Now that remorse was vain, which life-long lay Dormant when lesson might be laid to heart; New gift of observation up and down And round man's self, new power to apprehend Each necessary consequence of act In man for well or ill—things obsolete— Just granted to supplant the idiocy Man's only guide while act was yet to choose, With ill or well momentously its fruit; A faculty of immense suffering Conferred on mind and body,—mind, erewhile Unvisited by one compunctious dream During sin's drunken slumber, startled up, Stung through and through by sin's significance Now that the holy was abolished—just As body which, alive, broke down beneath Knowledge, lay helpless in the path to good, Failed to accomplish aught
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

There, nothing issues (from Essence), nothing changes or agitates it; for there is nothing outside of it that could reach it; if a single thing existed outside of ("being"), ("being") would be dependent on it.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

From their taking notes in their tablets from time to time, and from the knowing looks they assumed at the commencement of every new chain of argument, I guessed that these might be embryo jurisconsults, preparing themselves by their attendance for future exertions of the same species; and, indeed, when I listened to their conversation at the close of every speech, I thought I could perceive in their tones and accents, studied mimicry of the natural peculiarities of Licinius, Bruttianus, and the other
— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart