Though you break your heart, men will go on as before. Marcus Aurelius
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. William Butler Yeats
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. Mikhail Lermontov
I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin. John Wesley
You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses. Walter Benjamin
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny. Frederick Douglass