He also said that he was:— A fellow countryman of wise Diogenes, Whom even envy never had attacked.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

No game-spoiler hath come to you with evil eye, no enemy of maidens.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3. There was in times of old, where Ymir dwelt, nor sand nor sea, nor gelid waves; earth existed not, nor heaven above, 'twas a chaotic chasm, and grass nowhere.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

We hoped indeed that death did not now as heretofore walk in its shadow; yet, left as we were alone to each other, we looked in each other's faces with enquiring eyes, not daring altogether to trust to our presentiments, and endeavouring to divine which would be the hapless survivor to the other three.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

No admiration in France without estime —equally no love."
— from On Love by Stendhal

848 Will Est et non est be received in faith itself as well as in miracles?
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Meanwhile the stranger stood, now looking at the singer with eager eyes, now searching the faces of the people, keen to see the effect upon them.
— from When Valmond Came to Pontiac: The Story of a Lost Napoleon. Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

A day would come when everything, even Nature, would bid you leave me, and I have already told you that death is preferable to desertion.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

If reduced to extreme poverty, a Hebrew might sell himself; but in such a case he was to serve, not as a bondsman, whose term of service was only six years, nor was he to serve as a hired servant, who received his wages every evening, nor yet as a sojourner or temporary resident in the family, but he was to serve his master until the year of Jubilee A .
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Every fresh cap that was exploded, every new flag that was broidered, was duly chronicled by the rabid press.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

But insomnia was exciting every nerve in his body; each memory seemed to light up the entire labyrinth of his brain; each sense-message came inward like a bomb-shell, reaching with its explosion the highest as well as the deepest centers, discharging circuits of swift fire through every area of associated ideas, and so completely shattering the normal congruity between impressions and recognitions that the slight drag of the sheet across his raised toes was sufficient to make him feel again the pressure of thick boots that he had worn years ago when he tramped as new postman on the Manninglea Road.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

and so Waif's dark eyes closed in that other life, on which we enter every night, and the girl sank into a peaceful sleep, dreaming calmly of her love.
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

If it be not kept so, the air will eventually escape, no matter how tightly the cork be put in.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

You kin plant jimson weeds in the garden, en tend 'em and water 'em, en nuss 'em the hull season through, en you'll hev only a leetle bigger crop of jimson seed at the wind-up.
— from Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman Edwin Miller