Antiquity Quotes
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
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From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.
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With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
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Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
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From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
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Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
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The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
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In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.
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...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.
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The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
