Some of the respectable Puritan gentlemen at Rome also held that a wife be content to be a humble admirer of her husband (e.g., Pliny, Paneg ., 83, hoc efficiebat, quod mariti minores erant ... nam uxori sufficit obsequii gloria, etc.).
— from A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene A. (Eugene Arthur) Hecker

For the same movement endures naturally unless some new cause prevents it or changes it, because the reason which makes it cease Page 355 [355] at this instant, if it is no new reason, would have already made it cease sooner.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von