For instance, to make a man lose a hundred thalers, by legal tricks involving no danger, is equally unjust, whether he be rich or poor; but in the latter case the rapping of conscience is much louder, the censure of disinterested witnesses more emphatic.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Tac. Reisst den Menschen aus seinen Verhältnissen; und was er dann ist, nur das ist er —Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is, that only is he. Seume.
— 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.

Napoleon and his whole army supposed the interior of Bohemia to be very mountainous,—whereas there is no district in Europe more level, after the girdle of mountains surrounding it has been crossed, which may be done in a single march.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

In a crooked race, there is no difficulty in evading them.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

It must be allowed, that reckoning all these advantages, no hesitation was necessary in the choice; in fact, I was so content with mine, that I never once repented it; nor do I even now, when, free from the irrational motives that influenced me at that time, I weigh in the scale of reason every action of my life.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It spread its nostrils, distended its eyes and trembled all over, just as horses customarily do in the presence of a serpent—and for aught
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

This is never done in England, where all face to the dexter.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Had the porcupine been entirely unrolled, or had it not discovered its enemy a fraction of a second before the blow was struck, the paw would have escaped unscathed; but a side-flick of the tail sank sharp quills into it as it was withdrawn.
— from White Fang by Jack London

A traveller writing ten years hence may probably have to tell that the city has extended to its walls, that Western influence is nearly dominant in externals, and possibly that the concessionaires who for years have been hanging about the Palace in alternations of hope and despondency have made something of their concessions, and that goods reach the capital in another way than on the backs of animals.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

It will be noted that this sport took place at a season when no hunting is now done in England.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
— from Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Ossama Othman

Prodicus is not disappointed in expecting some extra visitors.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

But as that had happened long before I came into the country, and the child was dead and forgotten, the people were so good to her, and so kind to me, that, hearing I had married her, nobody ever spoke of it; neither did I ever hear of it or suspect it till after she was in her grave, and then it was of small consequence to me one way or other; and she was a faithful, virtuous, obliging wife to me.
— from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe

215] Oregon is now divided into eight counties, viz: Lewis, Vancouver, Clatsop, Yam-hill, Polk, Quality, Clackamis, and Shampoic.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

The words 'He is now deed,' in E 29, suggest that Petrarch was still living when Chaucer first wrote the Tale.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

"That hath been used," wrote Stearne, "and I durst not goe about to cleere my selfe of it, because formerly I used it, but it was at such time of the yeare as when none tooke any [192] harme by it, neither did I ever doe it but upon their owne request."
— from A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

It was by no means advisable to remain in the village where I now was during this interval; nor did I even think proper to employ it, in proceeding on foot along the great road.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin