Every place serves me well enough to stay in, for I need no other conveniences, when I am sick, than what I must have when I am well.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The first and roughest drawings I put in very smart gilt frames to show them off; but as the copy becomes more accurate and the drawing really good, I only give it a very plain dark frame; it needs no other ornament than itself, and it would be a pity if the frame distracted the attention which the picture itself deserves.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But if, as thou wert ready to acknowledge just now, the fact of foreknowledge imposes no necessity on things future, what reason is there for supposing the results of voluntary action constrained to a fixed issue?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Amongst the proselytes of this last class there are some no doubt whom political events, the favour of the prince or other circumstances, detach from the Association; but the number of these deserters is necessarily very limited: and even then they dare not speak openly against their old associates, whether because they are in dread of private vengeances or whether because, knowing the real power of the sect, they want to keep paths of reconciliation open to themselves; often indeed they are so fettered by the pledges they have personally given that they find it necessary not only to consider the interests of the sect, but to serve it indirectly, although their new circumstances demand the contrary.... Berckheim then proceeds to show that those writers on Illuminism were mistaken who declared that political assassinations were definitely commanded by the Order: There is more than exaggeration in this accusation; those who put it forward, more zealous in striking an effect than in seeking the truth, may have concluded, not without probability, that men who surrounded themselves with profound mystery, who propagated a doctrine absolutely subversive of any kind of monarchy, dreamt only of the assassination of sovereigns; but experience has shown (and all the documents derived from the least suspect sources confirm this) that the Illuminés count a great deal more on the power of opinion than on assassination; the regicide committed on Gustavus III is perhaps the only crime of this kind that Illuminism has dared to attempt, if indeed it is really proved that this crime was its work; moreover, if assassination had been, as it is said, the fundamental point in its doctrine, might we not suppose that other regicides would have been attempted in Germany during the course of the French Revolution, especially when the Republican armies occupied the country?
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

For I not now only, but always, am a person who will obey nothing within me but reason, according as it appears to me on mature deliberation to be best.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Fawcett is not needed only in England.
— from A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General by Winifred Holt

To be sure, he was paying for it now, not only in anxiety about money, but in shame, and furtiveness, and the corroding consciousness of being a liar, and in the complete shipwreck of every purpose and ambition that a young man ought to have.
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Thirdly, because food is needed not only for growth, else at the term of growth, food would be needful no longer; but also to renew that which is lost by the action of natural heat.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I have heard several comments upon us and our policy from intelligent natives, none of them very flattering to our sagacity or consistency, but I will only give one which struck me as being a most striking comment upon a policy that aimed at conciliation, forbearance, and patient improvement of the Maori.
— from Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Frederick Edward Maning

For if nothing not once in sense is to be found in the intellect, much less is such a thing to be found in the imagination.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

In the following is noted not only simple alliteration but also that the second hemistich begins with the penultimate syllable of the first .
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell

That he had found it necessary not only to declare his marriage to all his relations, but since the person who married them was dead, to re-marry her in the church at Bristol, before witnesses.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall

That excellent maiden, when she heard this speech of her confidante’s, said—“You have spoken truth, my friend, I need no other relations.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

As a matter of fact, the gale soon increased so remarkably that the man on board, with his two boy assistants, soon found it necessary not only to drop their second anchor but also two others.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon