Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque fluxit —From this source the disaster flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the people.
— 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.

Those Academies also, which, in proposing prizes for literary merit, make choice of such subjects as are calculated to arouse the love of virtue in the hearts of citizens, prove that it prevails in themselves, and must give men the rare and real pleasure of finding learned societies devoting themselves to the enlightenment of mankind, not only by agreeable exercises of the intellect, but also by useful instructions.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As an ill conscience fills us with fear, so a good one gives us greater confidence and assurance; and I can truly say that I have gone through several hazards with a more steady pace in consideration of the secret knowledge I had of my own will and the innocence of my intentions: “Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Id cum periculosum ipsi est, tum etiam sordidum ad famam, committere, ut accusator nominere; quod contigit M. Bruto summo genere nato, illius filio, qui iuris civilis in primis peritus fuit.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of the brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Legislation by unanimity was actually tried in the kingdom of Poland, where each member of the assembly had the right of liberum veto on any measure, and it prevented progress, fostered violence, and spelled failure.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The account of Moses and the Jews, Heeren surmises, comes from Poseidonius, but it probably proceeds from oral communication had in Egypt; of these countries our author could describe nothing as an eye-witness, except the north-west of Syria.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

A throng, sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of the road and looked on.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

After the ascending currents have ceased, the component cloud particles slowly settle down into the warmer air beneath, until the mass has lost its proper pyramidal form, and has become an irregular cloud, such as is shown in Plate 46.
— from Cloud Studies by Arthur William Clayden

The mother-society in Paris prepared for his refusal by organising a secret revolutionary government for the city.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Every truth in political philosophy finds some exaggerated expression.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

Before, however, we came to the station, I decided that both names were right enough, but that Bromwicham was the original name; signifying the home on the Broomie moor, which name it lost in polite parlance for Birmingham, or the home of the son of Biarmer, when a certain man of Danish blood, called Biarming, or the son of Biarmer, got possession of it, whether by force, fraud, or marriage—the latter, by the bye, is by far the best way of getting possession of an estate—this deponent neither knoweth nor careth.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

a. fall with their full force on the center of the retina, and, by fatiguing that part of it, induce the reverse spectrum, many scattered rays, from the same internal pink paper, fall on the more external parts of the retina, but not in such quantity as to occasion much fatigue, and hence induce the direct spectrum of the pink colour in those parts of the eye.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

"But it is perfectly possible for other people to live in Rome too!
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I presently paid for what I had had, inquired the way to Llan Rhyadr, and departed.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

It may by this time have taken its permanent place, for though an explanation came to me, it never reached the others.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 97, January to June 1899 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Listen to the immense proclamation proceeding from it.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

National product per capita: $NA Inflation rate (consumer prices): 20% per month (first quarter 1993) Unemployment rate: 2% of officially registered unemployed but large numbers of underemployed Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA Exports: $30 million to outside the successor states of the former USSR (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: machinery and transport equipment, light industrial products, processed food items (1991) partners: NA Imports: $300 million from outside the successor statees of the former USSR (c.i.f., 1992) commodities: machinery, energy, consumer goods (1991) partners: NA External debt: $650 million (December 1991 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency