Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudori, / Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas —Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living.
— 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.

“Convenit a litibus, quantum licet, et nescio an paulo plus etiam quam licet, abhorrentem esse: est enim non modo liberale, paululum nonnunquam de suo jure decedere, sed interdum etiam fructuosum.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They have no shell, no legs, nor any prominent part, except an absorbing and an excretory , opposite organs; but, by their elastic wings, like caterpillars or worms, they creep in shallow waters, in which, when low, they can be seen by a kind of swallow, the sharp bill of which, inserted in the soft animal, draws a gummy and filamentous substance, which, by drying, can be wrought into the solid walls of their nest.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

64 Conveniet autem cum in dando munificum esse, tum in exigendo non acerbum in omnique re contrahenda, vendundo emendo, conducendo locando, vicinitatibus et confiniis, aequum, facilem, multa multis de suo iure cedentem, a litibus vero, quantum liceat et nescio an paulo plus etiam, quam liceat, abhorrentem.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Such stamp duties as those in England upon cards and dice, upon newspapers and periodical pamphlets, etc. are properly taxes upon consumption; the final payment falls upon the persons who use or consume such commodities.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Almost all those who do not belong to it are connected with it at least on some one point; after having been an exception in society, it threatens to become the chief, if not the only, class; nevertheless the notions and political precedents engendered by it of old still cling about it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[8] —Los vientos alisios, que vienen del nordeste, al pasar por el Golfo de Méjico, se cargan de humedad, la cual depositan en forma de lluvia en las faldas de las montañas que directamente se les oponen, es decir, el borde oriental de la meseta
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There were one or two ladies on horseback, as is always the case; but Edgehill was not a place popular, even with hunting ladies.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

In all, not a pleasant place either to live in or to die.
— from Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd

Now I much approve of the above custom, as also of the following, that not even the king is allowed to put any one to death for a single crime, nor any private Persian exercise extreme severity against any of his domestics for one fault, but if on examination he should find that his misdeeds are more numerous and greater than his services, he may in that case give vent to his anger.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

And it is not a proprietary product, either.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

A nd if loved by all she be R ightly, not a pampered pet, E asily you then may see 'Tis my little Margaret.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

non aliter poteras principis esse pater.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

To the loss of n before s we owe such names as Pattison , Paterson , etc ., son of Paton , the dim. of Patrick, and Robison for Robinson, and also a whole group of names like Jenks and Jinks for Jenkins (John), Wilkes for Wilkins , Gilkes , Danks , Perks , Hawkes , Jukes for Judkins (Chapter VI), etc.
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley