Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se / Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur —Every vice of the mind involves a condemnation the more glaring, the higher the rank of the person who is guilty.
— 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.

28 ‘Primus ille (Sulla), et utinam ultimus, exemplum proscriptionis invenit.’ Parallel Passages. Horace, Epodes vii.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Democratic peoples hold erudition very cheap, and care but little for what occurred at Rome and Athens; they want to hear something which concerns themselves, and the delineation of the present age is what they demand.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[85] cómo puede hacerse ese viaje.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

With many a lake the grounds were graced; Seats gold and silver, here were placed; Here every viand wooed the taste, It was a garden meet to vie E'en with the home of Gods on high.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

hortātus eram veritus eram secūtus eram partītus eram F. P. hortātus erō veritus erō secūtus erō partītus erō 254 Subjunctive Pres.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

λέγεται γὰρ [B] ὑπ᾽ Εὐριπίδου καλῶς (Or are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will not say hecatombs, but, by the gods, even the Olympian sacrifice 166 of a thousand oxen is merely empty expenditure and nothing else?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

There is no danger of our mistaking merely empirical principles for principles of the pure understanding, or conversely; for the character of necessity, according to conceptions which distinguish the latter, and the absence of this in every empirical proposition, how extensively valid soever it may be, is a perfect safeguard against confounding them.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Note 140 ( return ) [ From this short prescription, Hume (Essays, vol.
— 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

Surely, if he asserts my style to be affected, stiff, and starched, I may venture to pronounce his extremely vulgar, incorrect, and confused.
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm

He polished his eyeglass vigorously and screwed it firmly into position.
— from The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

Mogue's flank was completely turned; he was, in fact, most adroitly taken upon his own principle; his egregious vanity was ticked by this compliment to his piety; and, as he was at no time a person of firm character, he gave way.
— from The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

He came back presently, his eyes very red, and stumbling in and out managed to put down before each one a plate.
— from The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

The audience had heard much of the song, but few of those present had ever ventured into the insignificant café where she sang it nightly.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

The people of Provence [51] had always mixed freely with the educated Mahometans of Spain, and the wealthy Jews who lived among them: their own Christianity sat lightly upon them, as a cloak, the fashion of which might at any time be altered; theology was held in universal disesteem, and the priesthood, taken from the lowest strata of society, were objects of pity and contempt: a widespread heresy existed, which does not appear to have had much, if anything to do with modern Protestantism, holding 'erroneous views' on Baptism and the Eucharist, rejecting the Old Testament, denying the authority and necessity of the priesthood, and even repudiating, in some cases, marriage itself.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

Herod, as another act of obsequious flattery, also built a marble temple to Augustus at Paneas, at one of the sources of the Jordan, near the base of Mount Hermon, at the place that his son Herod Philip II, the tetrarch, afterward rebuilt and called,—from the emperor and himself,—Cæsarea Philippi, whither Jesus 26 Christ once came during his ministry, the most northern point he ever visited, and held one of the most significant conversations with his disciples.
— from Under Cæsars' Shadow by Henry Francis Colby

What procureur has ever ventured to draw up an accusation against M. Magendie or M. Flourens, in consequence of the rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs they have killed?—not one.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas