The final conclusion is, that no sage or poet ever said that the just return evil for evil; this was a maxim of some rich and mighty man, 336 Periander, Perdiccas, or Ismenias the Theban (about B.C. 398-381)….
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The final conclusion is, that no sage or poet ever said that the just return evil for evil; this was a maxim of some rich and mighty man, Periander, Perdiccas, or Ismenias the Theban (about B.C. 398-381)...
— from The Republic by Plato

The Epitaph Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell Epistle From Esopus To Maria Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb On Capt.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The others said yes readily enough, for each thought his own wife the most dutiful, and each thought he was quite sure to win the wager.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The hauling was not over till mid-day, and as the lumber was to be delivered to Andrew Hale, the Starkfield builder, it was really easier for Ethan to send Jotham Powell, the hired man, back to the farm on foot, and drive the load down to the village himself.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Richard embarked for Europe, to seek a long captivity and a premature grave; and the space of a few months concluded the life and glories of Saladin.
— 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

There is room enough for everybody to lie about, and read, and draw, all the time keeping out of Big Growly's way if he is working.
— from Sweethearts at Home by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

He is opposed to commerce, having had more than a dozen of his own people murdered since I have been here, for no other crime than trading in the city, and has promptly repelled every foreign effort to establish lawful commerce here among them, whether inside of the city or out.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

"You are wrong, my boy," said I. "In the first place, we should not return evil for evil; then, again, they might be of great assistance to us in building a house of some sort; and lastly, you must remember that they took nothing with them from the vessel, and may be perishing of hunger."
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss

And first they travelled round Erin from Essa to Beinn Etair, [16] and then in a great black galley they set sail, and Deirdrê had a heart light as the white-winged sea-birds as the men pulled at the long oars and sang together a rowing song, and she leaned on the strong arm of Naoise and saw the blue coast-line of Erin fading into nothingness.
— from A Book of Myths by Jean Lang

To give instances would be invidious, but I have no hesitation in asserting that the preachments offered in London at the three or four great churches which are supposed to enshrine orators are, as a rule, exceedingly feeble efforts, tricked out with gauds and mannerisms, packed with trite sentiment, and utterly devoid of doctrine, inspiration, and value.
— from The Egregious English by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

To return even from evil to good, from an artificial state of things to one more natural, calls for the exercise of much prudence and precaution.
— from Protection and Communism by Frédéric Bastiat

But by this real sign—that thou didst reach, In natural order, rising each from each, Thy own ideals of the True and Just; And that as thou didst live, even so he must Who would aspire his fellow-men to teach, Looking perpetual from new heights of Thought On his old self.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

He intended to run eastward far enough to allow for the currents, when he should finally head for Santo Domingo.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor