There is no obedience here: for, the fact that something is as it is, strong or weak, is not the result of obedience or of a rule or of a constraint....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Perhaps it is not the right one; but that will sometimes happen, madam.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"This also is not the right one," said he, "have you no other daughter?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

So home; and there do hear also from Mrs. Sarah Daniel, that Greenwich is at this time much worse than ever it was, and Deptford too: and she told us that they believed all the towne would leave the towne and come to London; which is now the receptacle of all the people from all infected places.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The fact that one sets one's life, one's health, and one's honour at stake, is the result of high spirits and of an overflowing and spendthrift will: it is not the result of philanthropy, but of the fact that every danger kindles our curiosity concerning the measure of our strength, and provokes our courage.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But the faculty which enables him to discern the inner heart of things, and the harmony that dwells there (for whatsoever exists has a harmony in the heart of it, or it would not hold together and exist), is not the result of habits or accidents, but the gift of Nature herself; the primary outfit for a Heroic Man in what sort soever.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

[726] Its object is not to represent or bring to mind a determined object, but to bear witness to the fact that a certain number of individuals participate in the same moral life.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The short of the case in conquest is this: the conqueror, if he have a just cause, has a despotical right over the persons of all, that actually aided, and concurred in the war against him, and a right to make up his damage and cost out of their labour and estates, so he injure not the right of any other.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Pish, said the monk, that is not the reason of it, but, according to the true monastical philosophy, it is because my nurse had soft teats, by virtue whereof, whilst she gave me suck, my nose did sink in as in so much butter.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Fresh sorts are constantly being brought into notice, the result of cross-fertilisation, and we may, I think, congratulate ourselves that British pears in a favourable season are as good as those produced in any part of the world.
— from The Book of Pears and Plums; With Chapters on Cherries and Mulberries by Edward Bartrum

The result was that in this, as in nearly every case where clever diplomacy is needed, the result of the negotiations remained hidden from the public.
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

The book is apparently not translated, and it is not the retelling of old tales.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

On June 8 the British issued a similar order; and in November the rule of 1756 was again put in force by the British government.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

The unit of heat, called a calorie , or gramme-degree, is the amount of heat which is necessary to raise one gramme (15.43 grains) of water one degree centigrade (1.8° Fahr.).
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Now remark first that in all this there is nothing that one might not acknowledge if it were true; but it is not true, and have I not the right of denying it?
— from L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 1 by Ludovic Halévy

In cases, then, in which other great qualities are not wanting; and even in the case of Schopenhauer, who obviously valued what he did not and could not have ...—is it not the result of a merely mechanical moral interpretation of real states of pain and displeasure?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But, although senior in point of age, the Royal Scots is not "the right of the line" in the British Army.
— from With the Scottish Regiments at the Front by Evelyn Charles Vivian

It is not the receipt of custom, my dear wife, that is idolatry, but desire of dress, pleasure, and luxury.
— from I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger