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• The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
• In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
• There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by… — Rita Mae Brown
• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of… — Thomas Aquinas
• The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who… — Laozi
• Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,… — Mary Hunter Austin
• It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we… — Herman Boerhaave
• What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. — Sun Tzu
• The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut… — Arthur Eddington

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