Nor does the soul clearly discover its ideas at its first resort to this abode to which it is so unaccustomed, and which is in so disturbed a state; but after having refreshed and recollected itself, it then by its memory recovers them; and, therefore, to learn implies nothing more than to recollect.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He gave her a letter, it was from Frank, and to herself; he had met with it in his way, and had taken the liberty of opening it.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Niinklinar ug gamay dapit sa wala ang balay human sa línug, The house tilted a little to the left after the earthquake.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Indiscreet desire of a present cure, that so blind us Indocile liberty of this member Inquisitive after everything Insensible of the stroke when our youth dies in us Insert whole sections and pages out of ancient authors Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not Intemperance is the pest of pleasure Intended to get a new husband than to lament the old Interdict all gifts betwixt man and wife Interdiction incites, and who are more eager, being forbidden It (my books) may know many things that are gone from me It happens, as with cages, the birds without despair to get in
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

l'on se doit résoudre à ce passage —Death is no surprise to the wise man; he is always ready to depart, having learnt to anticipate the time when he must make up his mind to take this last journey.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It may be assumed that the latter, on the contrary, feel very uncomfortable.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Vava looked puzzled for a minute, and then laughed as she said, 'You mean that it is providential that they like one another?
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

With reference to this last maxim, bear in mind that "what is one man's meat is another man's poison."
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Subtenants similarly owed military service to their landlords, though in the lesser grades this was almost invariably commuted for money.
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

“I was as much surprised as you to have him ask us if we would take her up to the lake.”
— from The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered by Grace Brooks Hill

Come back with me to that little home of forty years ago and I’ll show you to what and to whom I do owe it.
— from Across the Years by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

It seemed to them like deliverance when they entered it at last.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

We are, therefore, to look for instances of this peculiar relation of impressions only in such affections, as are attended with a certain appetite or desire; such as those of love and hatred.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

For this he quit his native sod, Retreated to the land of Nod, And, in the torture of despair, Turn'd poet, pimp, or newsman there— Divines have labour'd in the dark To find the meaning of his mark: [Pg 385] How many idle things they wrote— 'Twas nothing but a ragged coat.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 2 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

The renter then demanded that the landlord should pay him for his building.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard