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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

The Ancients understood the omnipotence of the underside of things. — Louis Pasteur

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 have our arts, the ancients had theirs ... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact. — Voltaire

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. — Alec Waugh

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

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

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates

The ancients said: Hulk to be whole. — Laozi

Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want
Skulduggery: A winning sense of style? — Derek Landy

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

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads. — Ambrose Bierce

I have heard that the ancients used bows and arrows to their advantage. — Sun Tzu

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. — Augustus Hare

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

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

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning. — Polybius

Blue paint among the ancients, or red paint among the modern Britons. — G.K. Chesterton

To betray is to act against, I just haven't acted at all - China Sorrows — Derek Landy

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

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

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything. — Blaise Pascal

When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world. — Dan Brown

Seek not the paths of the ancients;
Seek that which the ancients sought. — Matsuo Basho

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten. — Albert Einstein

The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. — John Steinbeck

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted. — Plutarch

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

Serpine: You have caused me so much trouble over the years detective. It's almost a shame to end it
Skulduggery: You're surrendering? — Derek Landy

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

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist. — Novalis

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

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate. — Donna Tartt

Two Ancients' mates in the same family. Maybe you are more like Rhyn than I gave you credit for. Both of you are blemishes on your family. — Lizzy Ford

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 were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, — Lao-Tzu

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg

Serpine underestimates you. Everyone underestimates you. You're stronger than they know. You're stronger than you know - Skulduggery — Derek Landy