No ends really because it’s round.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

His ideal, emanating from his function and chosen for no extraneous reason, is to make his heroes think and act as they really thought and acted in the world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

III, 198); Non enim rumores ponebat MSS.; Non ponebat enim alii.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Therefore I will give thee in return gold and silver in abundance, that thou mayest not ever repent that thou didst render a service to Dareios the son of Hystaspes."
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Sin erit, cui faciendum sit saepius, rei publicae tribuat hoc muneris, cuius inimicos ulcisci saepius non est reprehendendum; modus tamen adsit.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mrs Western, having drained Mrs Miller of all she knew, which, indeed, was but little, but which was sufficient to make the aunt suspect a great deal, dismissed her with assurances that Sophia would not see her, that she would send no answer to the letter, nor ever receive another; nor did she suffer her to depart without a handsome lecture on the merits of an office to which she could afford no better name than that of procuress.—This discovery had greatly discomposed her temper, when, coming into the apartment next to that in which the lovers were, she overheard Sophia very warmly protesting against his lordship's addresses.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Let them rail then, scoff, and slander, sapiens contumelia non afficitur , a wise man, Seneca thinks, is not moved, because he knows, contra Sycophantae morsum non est remedium , there is no remedy for it: kings and princes, wise, grave, prudent, holy, good men, divine, are all so served alike.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

eux qui nous en renvoient de plus fortes!
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Many of them are not early risers at the brightest of times, being birds of night who roost when the sun is high and are wide awake and keen for prey when the stars shine out.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

They insulted the honour of the mussulmaun women, destroyed the mosques, and did not even respect the sacred koraun.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

Which do not even represent happiness.
— from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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— from The Patriarchs Being Meditations upon Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job; The Canticles, Heaven and Earth. by J. G. (John Gifford) Bellett

The fact, of course, is unusual, and I do not exactly recommend its practice, but it is not at all impossible, and ridiculing the reporter of it shows either ignorance of the disease or a bad will towards the new curative system, to which those are most opposed who know the least of it.
— from Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Charles Munde

But the Life and Letters certainly had no more assiduous nor enthusiastic reader than the author thereof.
— from The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great family by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Nor is it Alce's Son nor Henrye's daughter, Whose proud contention cause this slaughter; Nor Nobles siding to make John no King, French Jews unjustly to the Crown to bring; No Edward, Richard, to lose rule and life, Nor no Lancastrians to renew old strife; No Duke of York nor Earl of March to soyle Their hands in kindred's blood whom they did foil.
— from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell

This ceremony had been waived, but upon being questioned by the Duchess at this interview as to their nature and extent, he is reported to have coolly answered that he really did not exactly remember, but that he would look them over, and send her information at his earliest convenience.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Mr Foljambe encouraged him with the assurance that being dressed for the part would give him confidence; in a strange dress, a false moustache, and a painted face, he would not know himself in the glass, and would feel that the spectators did not entirely recognise him either.
— from Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough