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It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the… — Girolamo Savonarola
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules de Goncourt
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the… — Martin Chemnitz
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno
The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the… — Jean Lorrain
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than… — Joseph Addison
Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity,… — H P Lovecraft
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade and even the… — Robert E. Howard
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity… — Bayard Taylor
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity . — Karl Marx
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. — Thomas Fuller
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation… — Benjamin Disraeli
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names… — William Hazlitt
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
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
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. — Plutarch
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? — Francois Rabelais

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