Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet,… — Sarah B. Pomeroy Copy Share Image
“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
