In this sense, of course, both may be said to be bad, but then this does not make them out to be bad simpliciter : the exercise of the pure Intellect sometimes hurts a man’s health: but what hinders Practical Wisdom or any state whatever is, not the Pleasure peculiar to, but some Pleasure foreign to it: the Pleasures arising from the exercise of the pure Intellect or from learning only promote each.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

“No, certainly, not often; because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language is singularly agreeable to me, and the information she communicates is often just what I wished to gain.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

It has been the opinion of many philosophers, not only Stoics, but Epicureans—and this addition— [“Montaigne stops here to make his excuse for thus naming the Epicureans with the Stoics, in conformity to the general opinion that the Epicureans were not so rigid in their morals as the Stoics, which is not true in the main, as he demonstrates at one view.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When we say to them: Friends, you are mistaken, and are saying what is not true, they would probably reply:
— from Protagoras by Plato

Therefore to comprehend them all at once, I say, there is no text in that part of the Old Testament, which the Church of England holdeth for Canonicall, from which we can conclude, there is, or hath been created, any permanent thing (understood by the name of Spirit or Angel,) that hath not quantity; and that may not be, by the understanding divided; that is to say, considered by parts; so as one part may bee in one place, and the next part in the next place to it; and, in summe, which is not (taking Body for that, which is some what, or some where) Corporeall; but in every place, the sense will bear the interpretation of Angel, for Messenger; as John Baptist is called an Angel, and Christ the Angel of the Covenant; and as (according to the same Analogy) the Dove, and the Fiery Tongues, in that they were signes of Gods speciall presence, might also be called Angels.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

To beasts she has given sense and motion, and a faculty which directs them to what is wholesome, and prompts them to shun what is noxious to them.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I might say to myself, "You are a dreamer to seek what is not to be found here below."
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Then shall we try to find some way of convincing him, if we can, that he is saying what is not true?
— from The Republic by Plato

Peradventure, the faculty of sleeping would seem useless and contrary to nature, since it deprives us of all action and sentiment, were it not that by it nature instructs us that she has equally made us to die as to live; and in life presents to us the eternal state she reserves for us after it, to accustom us to it and to take from us the fear of it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Hence in repeated motions, as of the fingers in performing on the harpsichord, it would at first sight appear, that swiftness and strength were incompatible; nevertheless the single contraction of a muscle is performed with greater velocity as well as with greater force by vigorous constitutions, as in throwing a javelin.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

For we cannot assign as the cause of a sickness, something which is not the cause of a disturbance in the humors: though we can assign as cause of a diaphanous body, something which is not the cause of the darkness, which is not essential to the diaphanous body.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Surecard:" in the Key it is said that this character "infers, by the sharpness of the nose, that craft and subtilty which is natural to creatures of a similar kind, known by the name of Foxes , and is here pointed out as a Knave."
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

Do you think, my poor boy, I would not have taught you this great, this final secret, were it not that it throws one right into the clutches of him ... who must remain [121] unnamed at night?”
— from Nightmare Tales by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

A fable is a story which is not true.
— from Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. by Richard Green Parker

Now, Beric, step forward and say what is next to be done."
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Since these philosophers think it necessary to prove the law of inertia, they of course do not suppose it to be self-evident; they must, therefore, be of opinion that previously to all proof, the supposition of a body's moving by internal impulse is an admissible hypothesis; but if so, why is not the hypothesis also admissible, that the internal impulse acts naturally in some one particular direction, not in another?
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

"All this, however, matters nothing," continued Mr. Crawley, "and all speech on such homely matters would amount to an impertinence before you, sir, were it not that you have hinted at a purpose of connecting yourself at some future time with this unfortunate family."
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope