Ancient Quote by Lisa Marie Rice

With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by…

— Luc de Clapiers

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to…

— Ambrose Bierce

Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never…

— Edward Gibbon

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

— Henry Suso

“In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Them that honour me I will honour," said God once to a priest of Israel, and that ancient law of the Kingdom stands today…

— A.W. Tozer

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

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

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

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

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

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera