Thus, without waiting to be marshaled, the soldiers will be constantly on the qui vive; without waiting to be asked, they will do your will; without restrictions, they will be faithful; without giving orders, they can be trusted.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

"She would be capable of using her influence with my uncle to place me in a mad-house.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It is an old formula of the schools: Nihil appetimus nisi sub ratione boni; Nihil aversamur nisi sub ratione mali, and it is used often correctly, but often also in a manner injurious to philosophy, because the expressions boni and mali are ambiguous, owing to the poverty of language, in consequence of which they admit a double sense, and, therefore, inevitably bring the practical laws into ambiguity; and philosophy, which in employing them becomes aware of the different meanings in the same word, but can find no special expressions for them, is driven to subtile distinctions about which there is subsequently no unanimity, because the distinction could not be directly marked by any suitable expression.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

If I merely were one of your disciples, oh venerable one, I'd fear that it might happen to me that only seemingly, only deceptively my self would be calm and be redeemed, but that in truth it would live on and grow, for then I had replaced my self with the teachings, my duty to follow you, my love for you, and the community of the monks!" With half of a smile, with an unwavering openness and kindness, Gotama looked into the stranger's eyes and bid him to leave with a hardly noticeable gesture.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Della Penna, too, makes a statement which bears curiously on the present passage.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In the Kui sin tsa shi , written by Chow Mi, in the former part of the 14th century, interesting particulars regarding Mongol hunting are found.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"I never knew Matthew very well; he was so shy we boys couldn't get acquainted with him—but I quite agree with you that Captain Jim is one of the rarest and finest souls God ever clothed in clay.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

When they say that it will be eternal, do they mean to speak of that covenant which they say will be changed; and so of the sacrifices, etc.?
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

She was leaking badly, requiring about five or ten minutes at the pumps every hour, but it was intended to try and make San Francisco, unless the leaking increased in a gale, when she was to be repaired at Oonalaska, and if matters came to the worst she would be condemned.
— from Along Alaska's Great River A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka

Not only had the father absolute power over the son, so that he might do with him what he pleased; but this particular mode of disposing of a son would be considered singular only as being beyond the reach of ordinary virtue.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

She would be crossing the bare stage on her way home.
— from Gigolo by Edna Ferber

She stared at him for a few seconds with blanched cheeks, clasping her hands.
— from The Wharf by the Docks: A Novel by Florence Warden

© 1Oct35; A93592. Chilton Co. (PWH); 23Jan63; R308664. LAKE, CHARLES H. A general science workbook, by Charles H. Lake, Louis E. Welton & James C. Adell.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Probably the discovery of the earth's globular shape had first suggested the idea of a finite universe to Parmenides; at any rate, the discovery of the earth's motion suggested the idea of an infinite universe to his Greek-souled Italian successor; or rather it was Page 10 {10} the break-up of Aristotle's spherical world by Copernicanism that threw Bruno back—as he gives us himself to understand—on the older Ionian cosmologies, with their assumption of infinite space and infinite worlds.
— from History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn

This having done, he suddenly withdrew; But carelessly away the trophy threw; Of which the sly gallant advantage took,
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

the “Booklet on the Life and Rule of End-Christ as Divinely decreed, how he corrupteth the world through his false teaching and devilish counsel, and how, after this, the two prophets Enoch and ‘Helyas’ shall win back Christendom by preaching the Christian faith.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar