An equally true—perhaps still truer—note was struck by Sainte-Beuve, when he insisted on the important place in Stendhal's character played by la peur d'être dupe —the fear of being duped.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Nietzsche himself, indeed, recommends this in Aphorism 103 of this book, an aphorism which is almost too well known to need repetition; for it likewise disproves the grotesque though widely circulated supposition that all kinds of immorality would be indulged in under the sway of the “Immoralistic” philosopher: “I should not, of course, deny—unless I were a fool—that many actions which are called immoral should be avoided and resisted; and in the same way that many which are called moral should be performed and encouraged; but I hold that in both cases these actions should be performed from motives other than those which have prevailed up to the present time.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

So I was well contented and spent part of the morning at my office, and so home and to dinner, and after dinner, finding Sarah to be discontented at the news of this woman, I did begin in my wife’s chamber to talk to her and tell her that it was not out of unkindness to her, but my wife came up, and I perceive she is not too reconciled to her whatever the matter is, that I perceive I shall not be able to keep her, though she is as good a servant (only a little pettish) that ever I desire to have, and a creditable servant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Let us add that if it is according to rule that the architecture of a building should be adapted to its purpose in such a manner that this purpose shall be immediately apparent from the mere aspect of the building, one cannot be too much amazed at a structure which might be indifferently—the palace of a king, a chamber of communes, a town-hall, a college, a riding-school, an academy, a warehouse, a court-house, a museum, a barracks, a sepulchre, a temple, or a theatre.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

So in the passions, there is pleasure in seeing the collision of two contraries; but when one acquires the mastery, it becomes only brutality.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The next of perils, though I place it sternest, Is when, without regard to 'church or state,' A wife makes or takes love in upright earnest.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And what if there should be an outcry, and instead of that imposing picture it should come to a lawsuit?
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is a system of morals,” he says, “calculated for princes, much more free than that which ought to govern private persons,” ( Treatise , III., Part II., Sect.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

When John heard that, in prison, it settled all his doubts.
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

As the peaceful morning dawns, not by fits and starts, but steadily and gradually, so that its progress is scarcely perceptible, so did Divine love increase in the heart of Our Lady, the glorious Virgin Mary.
— from The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Thirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc. by Francis, de Sales, Saint

Horror, recoil, disavowal—a wild resentment of the charges heaped upon her, of the pitiless interpretation of her behavior which broke from those harsh lips, of the incredulity passing into something like contempt with which Cliffe had endured her wrath and received her protestations—then a blind flight through the fields to the little wayside station, where she hoped to catch the last train; the arrival and departure of the train while she was still half a mile from the line, and her shelter at a cottage for the night; these things stood out plainly, whatever else remained in obscurity.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The list is long, but with a generous planting of well-selected varieties a succession of bloom may be had from the first blooming longiflorums and candidums in June until auratum and the late speciosums cast their ivory petals in September.
— from The Flower Garden by Ida D. (Ida Dandridge) Bennett

Nearly the whole of the country about the Mæander, as far as the inland parts, is subject to earthquakes, and is undermined by fire and water.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

It is a document in typing opposite the printed designation—the name is "L. H. Oswald" and to the right of that in printing is "SS Number," which I take it is his social security number?
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The 21st, the day set for the trial, I passed in such misery of mind as I can scarce recall to have endured, save perhaps upon Isle Earraid only.
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

He makes the total material value of the property of the Italian colony in New York to be over $60,000,000, and says this value is relatively below that of the Italian possessions in Saint Louis, Boston, and Chicago.
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

It finds support for itself by a twist of its leaf-stalk (you will have watched your Giant Nasturtiums do this most cleverly), and its colour varies a little according to its place in sun or partial shade.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

[A; a] 1 tear into pieces, into small bits.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff