Antiquity Quote by Thomas Hobbes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

— Thomas Hobbes

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely…

— Ben Jonson

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on…

— Luc de Clapiers

“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in…

— Emile Bougaud

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity”

— José de Alencar

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

— William Harvey

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your…

— Laozi

“And man, being a part of Thy creation, desires to praise Thee, man, who bears about with him his mortality, the witness of his…

— Augustine of Hippo