Licuit, semperque licebit / Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis —It has ever been, and ever will be, lawful to spare the individual but to censure the vice.
— 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.

We feeble old folks, often ill, found her a source of comfort and cheer unheard of, making life perfect peace and joy.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

since the lyric poet Philoxenus, obtaining by lot in a Sicilian colony much substance and a house abounding in every kind of comfort, but finding that luxury and pleasure and absence of refinement was the fashion there, said, "By the gods these comforts shall not undo me, I will give them up," and he left his lot to others, and sailed home again.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

made him grand provost, in 1815, and later public prosecutor under the coveted name; finally he died as first president of the court.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

As the inner passages to the two caves were so close to each other, Duncan, believing that escape was no longer possible, passed David and the sisters, to place himself between the latter and the first onset of the terrible meeting.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

[ Consedimus in ipsis Tarpeiæ arcis ruinis, pone ingens portæ cujusdam, ut puto, templi, marmoreum limen, plurimasque passim confractas columnas, unde magnâ ex parte prospectus urbis patet, (p. 5.)]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"I like practical people, and can't endure sentimental milk-sops.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Los cuadros que hay en las paredes pueden ser al óleo, al pastel o acuarelas, aunque no dejan de [115] verse algunos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Here is a little pastoral puzzle that the reader may, at first sight, be led into supposing is very profound, involving deep calculations.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Note 15 ( return ) [ 'De la Physionomie,' pp. 12, 73.]
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

He claimed, finally, that that one of these provisions which ordains that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law protected property in slaves, taken into the Territories by their masters, against both the power of Congress and of the agents of Congress in the Territories, the Territorial governments, to free them.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

"Love like a shadow flies, when substation love pursues, Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

Je suis si excitée, que je ne le puis pas ."
— from The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival

The women, seeking their prey for the night, caused themselves to be treated, in the meantime; and in the free space between the tables, the ordinary local public predominated a whole regiment of boatmen, Rowkickersup , with their companions in short flannel petticoats.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant

Council of Ministers nominated by the president elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for five-year terms; election last held 9 May 1993 (next to be held 10 May 1998) election results: Juan Carlos WASMOSY elected president; percent of vote-Juan Carlos WASMOSY 40.09%, Domingo LAINO 32.06%, Guillermo CABALLERO VARGAS 23.04% Legislative branch: bicameral Congress or Congreso consists of the Chamber of Senators or Camara de Senadores (45 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (80 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: Chamber of Senators-last held 9 May 1993 (next to be held 10 May 1998); Chamber of Deputies-last held 9 May 1993 (next to be held 10 May 1998) election results: Chamber of Senators-percent of vote by party-NA; seats by party - Colorado Party 20, PLRA 17, EN 8; Chamber of Deputies-percent of vote by party-NA; seats by party-Colorado Party 38, PLRA 33, EN 9 Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Suprema de Justicia), judges appointed on the proposal of the Counsel of Magistrates (Consejo de la Magistratura) Political parties and leaders: Colorado Party, Luis Maria ARGANA, president; Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), Domingo LAINO; National Encounter (EN), Carlos FILIZZOLA; Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Miguel MONTANER; Febrerista Revolutionary Party (PRF),
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

390 A quite common belief in our own country is, that every Locust’s wing is marked with either the letter W, portending War, or the letter P, portending Peace.
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan

For special objects, also, photographs can be sent by telegraph through the use of the photo-relief in plaster of Paris, or other suitable material, which travels backwards and forwards underneath a pointer, the rising and falling of which is accurately represented by thick and thin lines—or by the darker and lighter photographic printing of a beam of light of varying intensity—at the other end, so that a shaded reproduction of the photograph is produced.
— from Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast by George Sutherland

m highest point: unnamed location on Agrihan 965 m Norway: lowest point: Norwegian Sea 0 m highest point: Galdhopiggen 2,469 m Oman: lowest point: Arabian Sea 0 m highest point: Jabal Shams 2,980 m Pacific Ocean: lowest point: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench -10,924 m highest point: sea level 0 m Pakistan: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen) 8,611 m Palau: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Ngerchelchauus 242 m Palmyra Atoll: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 2 m Panama: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency