Ancient Quote by C. V. Wedgwood

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men…

— Henry David Thoreau

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

— Madame de Stael

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

— Thomas Carlyle

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

— P. T. Barnum

“People who achieve great success do so by persistently and successfully meeting the challenges on The Path. Their stories are found in ancient mythology,…

— Oliver DeMille

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

— John Milton

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense…

— Gene Wolfe

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

— Kate Zambreno

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done…

— Sigmund Freud

“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer