Hence we Stoics conclude—which Panætius 221 is said to have doubted of—that the whole world at last would be consumed by a general conflagration, when, all moisture being exhausted, neither the earth could have any nourishment, nor the air return again, since water, of which it is formed, would then be all consumed; so that only fire would subsist; and 301 from this fire, which is an animating power and a Deity, a new world would arise and be re-established in the same beauty.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"He acquitted himself well last evening, notwithstanding the erroneous course he is pursuing in the political sphere.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

If I had refused in my free will, neither Eve nor the Enemy could have obtained my destruction.
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould