“A man must rate public and permanent, above private and fleeting advantages and study how to render his benefaction most useful, rather than how he may bestow it with least expense.”

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 15
Context: Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

sayings of Muhammad on the subject of marriage, quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam

Master-Insight.com Interview (2016)

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Who's Who in Marine Corps History: "Daniel Daly"

Source: Mental images and their transformations. 1982, p. 178; as cited in Niall (1997)

Samuel Pepys Diary, November 5, 1665.
Criticism

De causa Dei contra Pelagium

Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 1
Context: Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage...

Section I, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I