Socrates and Plato, who in this matter were great sceptics and admirable innovators, were nevertheless intensely credulous in regard to that fatal prejudice, that profound error, which holds that “The right knowledge must necessarily be followed by the right action.”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But he first held a meeting in the town, where, in a speech, he asked the people for their friendship, promising them his; and added, that he had some suspicions of his relation, King Magnus's intentions.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He cared very little about religion, knew more of the world, and was more of the world, than his wife.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Gamay ra kug makítà kay naglúd lang kug duha, I don’t earn much because I have only two courses.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nagkaisa ang íyang ranggu kay maáyu mang mutrabáhu, He is gradually rising in rank because he works well.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I came back to find out if they had really kidnapped Mrs. Davis, and met you."
— from Ralph in the Switch Tower; Or, Clearing the Track by Allen Chapman

He really knew more than his mother gave him credit for, having furtively watched Pat more than once.
— from The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger

This news delighted the conqueror, and he sent word that they would be well received if they would come to him. Almost immediately on receiving this reply, King Maxorata, who governed the north-westerly part of the island, set out, and with his suite of twenty-two persons, was baptized on the 18th of January, 1405.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

"Because I judged that no one would send you a letter for a place to which they did not know you were going," was Stilling's reply; and with it Ralph was obliged to be content, for it was very clear that if the man did really know more, he was in no mood for telling it.
— from The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

—Ruza Kooli Mirza, the great-grandson of Nadir Shah and Aga Mahommed Hasan, called.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

The rustler knew Monteith Sterry, and must have felt a consuming resentment toward him.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Indeed, I should rather be dead than ever do my lord such an ugly wrong, and may God never grant me better health than I have now but rather kill me on the spot, if such a thought ever entered my mind!
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

"No," said her friend earnestly, "you do not really know me yet.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse