A man is as effectually hindered from taking a walk by the [Greek: allotria haedouae] of reading a novel, as by the [Greek: oikeia lupae] of gout in the feet.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Of all the Affections which attend Human Life, the Love of Glory is the most Ardent.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A week later, as the affair had made much stir, Lecacheur, on going into the mairie to consult the schoolmaster, was told that the shepherd Severin had been waiting for him for more than an hour, and he found him sitting on a chair in a corner, with his stick between his legs.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Yet the passive courage inspired by the love of gain, induced the Jews to dare the various evils to which they were subjected, in consideration of the immense profits which they were enabled to realize in a country naturally so wealthy as England.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

We perceive lights here and there, some isolated fire in the farms, and lines of gas in the towns.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

58 So also in the legends of Gautama, in the Buddhist lives of the saints, and in legendary lore as well as in glyptic and pictorial art, the female being transfigured in loveliness is a striking figure.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE After the close of the secession war in 1865, I work'd several months (until Mr. Harlan turn'd me out for having written "Leaves of Grass") in the Interior Department at Washington, in the Indian Bureau.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Mill says: "That which the law of gravitation is to astronomy, that which the elementary properties of the tissues are to physiology, the Law of Association of Ideas is to psychology."
— from Thought-Culture; Or, Practical Mental Training by William Walker Atkinson

So she travelled with the Grand Duchess Hélène to the Lake of Geneva in the autumn of 1863, where they 74 lived in Ouchy, at the Hôtel Beaurivage.
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

They have no idea of the extent to which these forces frustrate the love of God in the Gospel, and rob men of their inheritance in Christ.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

Where there are openings, we see around each of them some lines of grains in the form of leaves, more or less oval.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

One of the rowers, an old sailor, who had known her in the days of her beauty and prosperity, had let her come in "for the love of God," in the beautiful phrase that the common people use.
— from Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac

He might as easily have given her three thousand, or six thousand, as it was for no lack of generous inclination that he held his hand; but he did not want to do anything that might seem like buying his wife.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

If in the course of these wanderings he should be fortunate enough to meet any of my numerous friends, especially in Florence, Paris, London or Glasgow, I trust this note will serve as a kindly introduction.
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers

Now we see the lines of gray in the edge of the woods on the other side of the little field; first their pickets behind clumps of bushes, then the solid column appearing behind the fence, coming on yelling like demons, and firing a volley that fills the air with smoke and cuts it with whistling lead.
— from The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy by Henry Martyn Kieffer

Yet he was careful not to give them an occasion of triumphing by any unreasonable condescension; and much more not to relax the severity of the law of God in the least tittle.[23]
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The love of gaming is the worst of ills; With ceaseless storms the blacken'd soul it fills; Inveighs at heaven, neglects the ties of blood; Destroys the power and will of doing good; Kills health, pawns honour, plunges in disgrace, And, what is still more dreadful—spoils your face.
— from The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young