—If that which is now expressly maintained is true, viz.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If these winds come from marshy districts or from other unwholesome quarters, they will introduce noxious exhalations into the system.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

But the treatise which is now extant under the name of Pythagoras is the work of Lysis, of Tarentum, a philosopher of the Pythagorean School, who fled to Thebes, and became the master of Epaminondas.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

It follows, therefore, that none of those things which are not visible in themselves admit of being perceived; for one considers signs as things which aid in the perception of that which is not evident by itself.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The wish is not enough: the will is not enough.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

For this multiplicity is directly conditioned by time and space, into which the will itself never enters.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I hear some one saying that “wickedness is not easily concealed,” to which I reply that “nothing great is easy.”
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

You are entirely mistaken, Prodicus, said Protagoras; and I know very well that Simonides in using the word 'hard' meant what all of us mean, not evil, but that which is not easy—that which takes a great deal of trouble: of this I am positive.
— from Protagoras by Plato

The proper meaning of the word is “niggard,” especially in regard to sacrificial gifts.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The external authority for and against these words is nearly evenly balanced: but there would obviously be a tendency to reject them as superfluous.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

They are dried, and finally burned or distilled; the ashes are leached to dissolve I salts; the water is nearly evaporated, and the residue is treated with H2SO4, and MnO2, as in the case of Br and Cl.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

I will break the shackle which yet partially binds me to him; I will emancipate myself from the restraint and thraldom wherein I now exist.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Not all the natural generosity of her mind—not that still stronger argument which she used so often, the mere necessity and inevitableness of the case—could blind her eyes to the fact that she had given up her own happiness; and bitter flashes of thought would intervene, notwithstanding even the self-contempt and reproach with which she became aware of them.
— from The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

These are delicious moments, when the pleasure of a foreign clime— "Blest be the time, the clime, the spot!"— becomes so intense that we are reluctant to let it go, and linger still, clinging to that which is nearly exhausted, as if we would drain the cup to the very last drop.
— from Gibraltar by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

Even now the blush of shame reflects its hue on those pages devoted to witchcraft in New England, from the cheeks of those who cannot read our country’s history without referring to them.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

They built the high walls which surround it, the houses, the church, and founded a tradition which is not extinct.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

" And, resolved , That it would be highly inexpedient to abolish slavery within any district of country set apart for the Indian tribes, where it now exists, or in Florida, the only Territory of the United States in which it now exists, because of the serious alarm and just apprehensions which would be [pg 528] thereby excited in the States sustaining that domestic institution; because the people of that Territory have not asked it to be done, and, when admitted into the Union, will be exclusively entitled to decide that question for themselves; because it would be in violation of the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Spain of the 22d of February, 1819; and, also, because it would be in violation of a solemn compromise, made at a memorable and critical period in the history of this country, by which, while slavery was prohibited north, it was admitted south, of the line of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude."
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

So much as to set down the names of all the towns I have passed, betwixt the two, will I not essay.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt