Best Antiquity Sayings
126 Antiquity quotes by 107 unique authors
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The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the…
— Henri Pirenne
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In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme…
— Luigi Russolo
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But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a cafĂ© latte to perk…
— Mark Forsyth
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Custom is often only the antiquity of error.
— Cyprian
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I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of…
— Frederick The Great
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But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally…
— Noah Webster
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
— Confucius
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I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after…
— Vincent of Lerins
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Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held…
— Vincent of Lerins
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What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but…
— Vincent of Lerins
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The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
— Samuel Johnson
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Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
— Charles Lamb
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
— Xunzi
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To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World…
— Joseph Needham
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
— Sigourney Weaver
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The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and…
— Isaac Mayer Wise
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The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover,…
— Marsilio Ficino
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Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
— Samuel Richardson
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Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned…
— Larry Atchley Jr.
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We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a…
— Kenny Smith
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If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons…
— Robert Hooke
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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.
— Confucius
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