(In re-reading these words a very expressive passage from Schopenhauer occurs to me, and I will quote it as a proof that he, too, without the slightest scruple, continued to adhere to this moral realism: “Each one of us is in reality a competent and perfect moral judge, knowing exactly good and evil, made holy by loving good and despising evil,—such is every one of us in so far as the acts of others and not his own are under consideration, and when he has merely to approve or disapprove, whilst the burden of the performance of the acts is borne by other shoulders.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One day, when, contrary to his custom, he had admitted Mercédès, and the poor girl, in spite of her own grief and despair, endeavored to console him, he said to her,—‘Be assured, my dear daughter, he is dead; and instead of expecting him, it is he who is awaiting us; I am quite happy, for I am the oldest, and of course shall see him first.’
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He took to standing for long periods, with nose to the ground and dejected ears dropped limply; and Buck found more time in which to get water for himself and in which to rest.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

So spake the old Serpent doubting, and from all With clamour was assur'd thir utmost aid At his command; when from amidst them rose Belial the dissolutest Spirit that fell 150 The sensuallest, and after Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus, and thus advis'd. Set women in his eye and in his walk, Among daughters of men the fairest found; Many are in each Region passing fair As the noon Skie; more like to Goddesses Then Mortal Creatures, graceful and discreet, Expert in amorous Arts, enchanting tongues Perswasive, Virgin majesty with mild And sweet allay'd, yet terrible to approach, 160 Skill'd to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangl'd in Amorous Nets.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Aunt and Mrs. Dale mutually gamahuched and dildoed each other.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Strikes me you swells are getting awful darn exclusive!”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Trudolyubov raised his glass, as did every one else but me.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was on other accounts also a venerable, and a very just man; and besides the grandeur of that nobility, and dignity, and honor of which he was possessed, he had been a lover of a kind of parity, even with regard to the meanest of the people; he was a prodigious lover of liberty, and an admirer of a democracy in government; and did ever prefer the public welfare before his own advantage, and preferred peace above all things; for he was thoroughly sensible that the Romans were not to be conquered.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

"The men have gone away, dear," explained her mother soothingly.
— from The Young Engineers in Nevada; Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

All grows and dies, each by its own wondrous laws, in wondrous fashion of its own; spiritual things most wondrously of all.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Which gentily and daintily Eat down the flow'ry braes, As greatly and quietly They wimple to the seas.' Ramsay had the misfortune never to have studied the technique of his art, so that in no respect is he a master of rhythm.
— from Allan Ramsay by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Lydie, who worshiped her father, knew absolutely nothing of his sinister gifts and dark employments.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

And yet he had inherited from his mother a natural gaiety and delightful elasticity which always ended by gaining the upper hand.
— from Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff

Low-hanging limbs of small second-growth trees slapped their faces and deluged the riders with water, and altogether they were experiencing about the most unpleasant ride that they had ever taken, except possibly that across the Great American Desert earlier in their vacation riding.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Josephine Chase

They calculated the chances of a battle or a campaign with the deliberation of experienced generals, and declined engagements against heavy odds when they could effect a retreat without discouraging their troops.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

His knowledge of French helped him considerably, of course, and on that first morning he had obeyed the Corporal's roar of " Sac à terre ," " A gauche ," " A droit ," " En avant, marche ," " Pas gymnastique ," or " Formez les faisceaux ," before the majority of the others had translated them.
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren

The Church could not afford to swerve a hair's breadth on some things if she was to continue her great and daring experiment of the irregular equilibrium.
— from Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton