Ancient Quotes
1413 quotes by 1010 authors
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient…
— Matt Ridley
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Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either…
— Unknown Author
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The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
— Noah Webster
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,…
— Uta Hagen
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The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between…
— Fritjof Capra
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To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable…
— Adolf Hitler
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and…
— John O'Donohue
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We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is…
— Pope John Paul II
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There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby;…
— Brooke Fraser
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Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle,…
— Jeff Cooper
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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride,…
— Jeff Cooper
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not…
— Seneca the Younger
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Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many…
— Mick Dodson
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the…
— Silvio Berlusconi
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What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In…
— Ronald Reagan
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