Ancient Quotes

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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
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
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
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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