Antiquity Quote by Pope Leo XIII

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“many lay people fear that they may be asked to undertake some apostolic work and they seek to avoid any responsibility that may take…

— Pope Francis

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

— Josef Pieper

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the…

— Henry Edward Manning

But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

— Mason Cooley

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

— Vincent de Paul

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough…

— Thomas Paine