May it never be my lot to have a wise fool for my friend; nothing is more Untractable.
"A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus With the Encheiridion"
Epictetus
Interest and ambition, honour and shame, friendship and enmity, gratitude and revenge, are the prime movers in all public transactions; and these passions are of a very stubborn and Untractable nature, in comparison of the sentiments and understanding, which are easily varied by education and example.
"Essays"
David Hume Commentator: Hannaford Bennett
Let us not despair that the same mighty energies and regenerating forces will be able to assign a docile and not Untractable race its appropriate place in our system.
"History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States"
Wiliam H. Barnes