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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
— Voltaire
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
— George Santayana
Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
— Lord Chesterfield
What the ancients called Bogan, as separate from Ashla.
— James Luceno
Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
— Stephen M. Barr
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.
— Herman Melville
We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.
— Karen Thompson Walker
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
Skulduggery, she's not being professional - Tanith Low
— Derek Landy
The others agreed that the gifts of the ancients and the gods were sometimes confusing, and Desidora did eventually decide to stay in.
— Patrick Weekes
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
— Gustave Courbet
Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
— Michel De Montaigne
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
— Donna Tartt
Blue paint among the ancients, or red paint among the modern Britons.
— G.K. Chesterton
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
— C.J. Sansom
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
— Benjamin Franklin
The wisdom of the ancients.
— Francis Bacon
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
— Augustus Hare
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
— Blaise Pascal
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
— Albert Einstein
When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.
— William Anthony Donohue
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
— Samuel Johnson
Do you have a weapon for me, or do you want me to beat her to death with a large stick? - Mr Bliss
— Derek Landy
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— Thomas Aquinas
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise.
— Millicent Ashby
I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.
— Confucius
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
— William Penn
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
— Rita Mae Brown
When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.
— Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
— Albert Einstein
Cow - Tanith Low
— Derek Landy
Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.
— Alfonso De Cartagena
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
— Charles Caleb Colton
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The bookworm - "one of the teeth of time," as Hooke put it - is no longer familiar to ordinary readers, but the ancients knew it very well.
— Stephen Greenblatt
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
— Sun Tzu
Cheer up everyone, since we're all going to die horribly anyway, what's there to be worried about? - Skulduggery Pleasant.
— Derek Landy
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
— Mark Twain
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.
— Julius Charles Hare
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
— Edward Dahlberg
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson