Ancient Quote by Cyprian Download Open image “Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.” — Cyprian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Culture Customs Errors Truth Truth is
“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old;… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The times, they are a-changing! What was once defined by tradition, respect, and custom has evolved into a relaxed and casual society. What is… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come?… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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