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- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton
- In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
- There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives… — Rita Mae Brown
- Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a… — Mary Hunter Austin
- One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of… — Peter of Blois