“Profecto fortuna in omni re dominatur: ea res cunctas ex libidine magis, quhm ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He gave away great sums privately, and no tale of real distress ever reached his ears in vain.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The rostrum overthrows antiquated forms of religious delusion, ennobles rational thought, exact science, and deep investigation.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

THE JUNTA DE HACIENDA That a receiver was expected to use the money in his hands and to be in arrears is indicated by a letter of the Suprema, in 1542, on learning the death of Ramon de Esparza, receiver of Majorca.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

"Profecto fortuna in omni re dominatur: ea res cunctas ex libidine magis, quhm ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque."
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11 by Michel de Montaigne

This is in addition to the larger pot plants—Oranges, Lemons, Oleanders, &c., that, in their immense and often richly decorated earthenware receptacles, form an important part of the garden design.
— from Colour in the flower garden by Gertrude Jekyll

The establishment of a Republic, which lasted two centuries, which threw a girdle of rich dependencies entirely round the globe, and which attained so remarkable a height of commercial prosperity and political influence, was the result of the Utrecht Union; but, it was not a premeditated result.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley