Private benevolence, therefore, is not the original motive of justice.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I quite agree, though I never thought of this before.
— from The Republic by Plato

And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho' not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

You have no object in life; there is nothing to occupy your attention, and sooner or later your feelings must master you.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On the other hand, there is no truth of which Plato is more firmly convinced than of the priority of the soul to the body, both in the universe and in man.
— from Timaeus by Plato

This is hoped will suffice to assure the ingenuous Reader that in no treatise of the translator’s, whether original or translatitious, shall willingly be offered the meanest rub to the reputation of any worthy gentleman, and that, however providence dispose of him, no misfortune shall be able to induce his mind to any complacency in the disparagement of another.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

— All this went on for a long time, or a short time: for properly speaking, there is NO time on earth for such things—. Meanwhile, however, the higher men had awakened in Zarathustra’s cave, and marshalled themselves for a procession to go to meet Zarathustra, and give him their morning greeting: for they had found when they awakened that he no longer tarried with them.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Among the Romans, and also among barbarians, such as the Celts and Persians, there is no trace of such attachments existing in any noble or virtuous form.
— from Symposium by Plato

There ain't such a thing in nature.' 'There oughn't to be, if there is,' replied Mr. Bolter.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

It was late evening when we came to the village, with no harm to Owen at all beyond tiredness, which a good sleep would amend; and after that there is little that I need tell of Howel's going to Exeter with the good news, and of his bringing back to us a litter more fitted for the carrying of the hurt prince, and
— from A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

This is not the only species of superstition belonging to confirmation, for instances are on record of persons who, although confirmed in their early life, have again presented themselves for confirmation in their old age, under a conviction that the bishop's blessing would cure them of some bodily ailment.
— from Domestic folk-lore by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

"Wore the winter thence with naught that I need tell of, only I thought much of the words that my mistress had spoken.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Secondly, much of the worst "sweating" is found where the element of sub-contract is entirely wanting, and where there is no trace of a ravenous middleman.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

The lid, it is true, is not the only means of protection which the voicebox possesses.
— from The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Emil Behnke

Well, that is not the ones he had on.
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The difficulty for Lotze is the now familiar one: So far as his logic compels him to insist that these meanings are the possession and product of thought (since thought is an independent activity), the ideas are merely ideas; there is no test of objectivity beyond the thoroughly unsatisfactory and formal one of their own mutual consistency.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

This is not the only passage in which Luther labels the concupiscence “which everyone feels” as a “sin.”
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

in v.) There is no trace of a live hippopotamus having been brought to Europe between the time specified in the last of these testimonies and the middle of the sixteenth century.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But this is not the only avenue to beneficence which the war opens.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe