[257] praetermittendis voluptatibus MSS.; del. Heine, Edd.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Le plus véritable marque d'être né avec de grandes qualités, c'est d'être né sans envie —The sure mark of being born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
— 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.

Præsentia vero, mirum dictû nihil imminuit: vere major fuit Roma majoresque sunt reliquiæ quam rebar.
— 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

It was a custom long since, ———suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris deo.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

El pobre Tafetán, empleado antaño en la Administración civil de la capital de la provincia, vivía modestamente de su sueldo en la Secretaría de Beneficencia, y completaba su pasar tocando gallardamente 15 el clarinete en las procesiones, en las solemnidades de la catedral
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Passepartout was on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet, the reason of which he could not for the life of him comprehend; but he reflected that the unfortunate Fix was probably very much disappointed and humiliated in his self-esteem, after having so awkwardly followed a false scent around the world, and refrained.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Define, in French, one or more words of the same family as each of the following: éclater, savoir, tarder, perdre, venger, marier, défendre, vainqueur, connaisseur, jugement, usage, bonhomme, chapeau, avis, ruse, pénible, patriotique, certain, malade, étrange, poli, médical.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

But since most people very much dislike and object to a man's praising himself, but if he praises some one else are on the contrary often glad and readily bear him out, some are in the habit of praising in season those that have the same pursuits business and characters as themselves, and so conciliate and move the audience in their own favour; for the audience know at the moment such a one is speaking that, though he is speaking about another, yet his own similar virtue is worthy of their praise.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Here I gave myself up to the old insipid privy shifts of my self-viewing, self-touching self-enjoying, in fine, to all the means of self knowledge I could devise, in search of the pleasure that fled before me, and tantalized with that unknown something that was out of my reach; thus all only served to enflame myself, and to provoke violently my desires, whilst the one thing needful to their satisfaction was not at hand, and I could have bit my finger for representing it so ill.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

"But there isn't any heart to, your city—no!—there is no heart at all at the center of things—just a silly, pretty, very much decorated heart-shaped box filled with candy.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Now for the petit vin my doctor cousin brought me last week from the family estate.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[193] PART V MISCELLANEOUS DEFENCES THE NAVY THE CINQUE
— from English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century by George Clinch

I am, for my part, very much deserted; but complaint is useless.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

"Did you love papa very much, darling, when you married him?" "Of course, dear," with a faint blush.
— from Phyllis by Duchess

MANUAL of MATERIA MEDICA and PHARMACY , By H. M. Edwards, M. D. and P. Vavasseur , M. D. CHEMICAL MANIPULATION.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Tous ces malheurs, ces tristesses, tout ce sang répandu sont imposés par vous, mon Dieu, en manière de rédemption.
— from Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse

It was said of a Wit of the last Age, { Sedley has that prevailing gentle Art, {Which, can with a resistless Charm impart {The loosest Wishes to the chastest Heart; Raise such a Conflict, kindle such a Fire, Between declining Virtue and Desire, That the poor vanquished Maid dissolves away In Dreams all Night, in Sighs and Tears all Day 1 .
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

In three or four minutes the animal was perfectly rigid, the four legs stretched backward, eyes wide open, pupils very much dilated, and exhibiting symptoms very similar to those caused by strychnine, except that there had been no previous struggle or pain.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various