Age Quote by Tacitus

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

— Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

— Blaise Pascal

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such…

— Robert Hooke

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

— Moliere

“When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions we imagined…

— Steven Erikson

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

It Is Said Some Lives Are Linked Across Time Connected By Ancient Calling That Echoes Through The ages…

— Paritoshik Sharma

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

— Leonardo da Vinci