Deinceps, ut erat propositum, de beneficentia ac de liberalitate dicatur, qua quidem nihil est naturae hominis accommodatius, sed habet multas cautiones.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

'Well, we did not catch a thousand, but we caught exactly nine hundred and ninety-nine—the biggest catch for a small boat on the whole north shore that summer.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Some one of us is even now hoping and praying that he may marry Penelope, but when he has seen this bow and tried it, let him woo and make bridal offerings to some other woman, and let Penelope marry whoever makes her the best offer and whose lot it is to win her.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

She did not even notice him, as she sat beside him at the head of the table.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

On the cold earth, no help at hand, Forlorn amid the Rákshas band, King Janak's child still calls on me, Her lord and love, to set her free.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I could not give you up when I had learned to love you; and I did learn very soon, for no wretched creature ever needed help and comfort more than I.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

So Sir Marhaus dwelled with the earl nigh half a year, for he was sore bruised with the giant, and at the last he took his leave.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The banker shewed me the bill of exchange, and said that the person who had given it me had deceived me, as it was not in the writing of the Englishman whose name it bore, and that even if it were, the Englishman not having any money with Sassi could not draw a bill of exchange.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On the other hand, as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, * the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings, which naturally differ infinitely in degree, cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has anyone a right to form judgements for others by his own feelings: nevertheless this moral feeling is nearer to morality and its dignity in this respect, that it pays virtue the honour of ascribing to her immediately the satisfaction and esteem we have for her and does not, as it were, tell her to her face that we are not attached to her by her beauty but by profit.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

This repugnance naturally attains its utmost height in an absolute government; and, on the other hand, the privileges of the courts of justice are extended with the increasing liberties of the people; but no European nation has at present held that all judicial controversies, without regard to their origin, can be decided by the judges of common law.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

His despatch says that the Emperor Nicholas has assumed mourning without waiting for official notifications, and that he had sent Count Nesselrode to M. Périer with his condolences, telling him he was ordered to write a despatch to M. de Kisseleff, which the latter would convey to M. Guizot, containing the same compliments.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

As we have before stated, the northernmost of the Germans inhabit a country bordering on the ocean; but we are only acquainted with those situated between the mouths of the Rhine and the Elbe, of which the Sicambri 2596 and Cimbri 2597 are the most generally known: those dwelling along the coast 2598 beyond the Elbe are entirely unknown to us; for none of the ancients with whom I am acquainted have prosecuted this voyage towards the east as far as the mouths of the Caspian Sea, neither have the Romans as yet sailed coastwise beyond the Elbe, nor has any one travelling on foot penetrated farther into this country.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

She had evidently just arrived, said “Evening” to everybody near her and sat down with a great rustling.
— from The Inevitable by Louis Couperus

"I don't see that you ever needed him as a guardian," said Eustace.
— from The Scarlet Bat: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

Woolman is generally to be found leaving my rooms at about 6.30 in the evening, and a smart detective could easily nab him as he stops out.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 by Various

By May, 1787, delegates to the proposed convention had been chosen in all the States except New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

All Europe now had a vital interest in the Suez Canal, and the powers therefore united in a demand that the Sultan should stop the career of his audacious Egyptian Viceroy.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto —I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me.
— 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.