A ban had been placed on the strongest, the most natural, yea, the only genuine impulses, henceforward, in order that an action might be praiseworthy, there must be no trace in it of any of those genuine impulses— monstrous fraud in psychology.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I will go in myself.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Those whom I have inspired with love by letting them see me, I have by words undeceived, and if their longings live on hope—and I have given none to Chrysostom or to any other—it cannot justly be said that the death of any is my doing, for it was rather his own obstinacy than my cruelty that killed him; and if it be made a charge against me that his wishes were honourable, and that therefore I was bound to yield to them, I answer that when on this very spot where now his grave is made he declared to me his purity of purpose, I told him that mine was to live in perpetual solitude, and that the earth alone should enjoy the fruits of my retirement and the spoils of my beauty; and if, after this open avowal, he chose to persist against hope and steer against the wind, what wonder is it that he should sink in the depths of his infatuation?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Now the peculiar thing in the ceremonies of the Warramunga of which we have been speaking, is that not a gesture is made whose object is to aid or to provoke directly the increase of the totemic species.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

To-morrow, like the music of which Aristotle and Plato tell us, the noble Dorian music of the Greek, it may perform the office of a physician, and give us an anodyne against pain, and heal the spirit that is wounded, and ‘bring the soul into harmony with all right things.’
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

There he encamped and resolved to blockade the inner city; for Hegesistratus, to whom the king Darius had entrusted the command of the garrison in Miletus, kept on sending 54 letters before this to Alexander, offering to surrender Miletus to him.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

And how much human nature loves the knowledge of its existence, and how it shrinks from being deceived, will be sufficiently understood from this fact, that every man prefers to grieve in a sane mind, rather than to be glad in madness.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

An interesting extract from his journal of the Waterloo campaign is given in Maj.-Gen.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

“We were a very numerous family at that time my father, my mother, my uncle and aunt, my two brothers and four cousins; they were pretty little girls; I married the youngest.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If he steals grain in the husk, he will be born a rat; if yellow mixed metal, a gander; if money, a great stinging gnat; if fruit, an ape; if the property of a priest, a crocodile.
— from Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by John Scudder

Traces of this barbarism linger even in the greatly improved medical science of our century.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I never see a hare when out for a country walk or ride—it is different, I fear, when I have a gun in my hand or am following beagles—without thinking to myself, “Poor devil!”
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

It is only the story of a tea-planter's romance, though the finding of the gift is most exciting.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 1, 1890 by Various

“Good idea, mate,” the retired seafarer said.
— from Atom Mystery [Young Atom Detective] by Charles Ira Coombs

I count so of getting into my summer-house again, and sitting down to write; I have arranged my book in my mind, and though it will take me a great deal of trouble to write it, I feel that when it is written it will be first-rate.
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

And the answer must be that Mr Bradley means very little, since the goodness is manifested "in various degrees of goodness and badness," and that the justification for using the term is not made clear.
— from Recent Tendencies in Ethics Three Lectures to Clergy Given at Cambridge by W. R. (William Ritchie) Sorley