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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 — Edward Joseph Young

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place. — Iain Pears

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead. — Jean Lorrain

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. — Theodora

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. — Josh McDowell

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. — Gertrude Bell

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? — Francois Rabelais

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. — Joseph Joubert

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. — Leigh Hunt

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. — Henry David Thoreau

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. — John Tillotson

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva. — Meir Soloveichik

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE — Charleston Parker

The great men of antiquity were poor. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring. — Gustave Flaubert

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love. — Octavio Paz

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. — William Hazlitt

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. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine

Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate

Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power. — Susan Howe

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority. — Pope Leo XIII

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. — Thomas Fuller

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. — Paul Lafargue

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity . — Karl Marx

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote. — Voltaire

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? — Aristophanes

A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity. — Peter J. Wetzelaer

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. — Jim Rohn

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity — Bill Bryson

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity. — Sigourney Weaver

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan

In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers). — Lao-Tzu

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. — Peter Ackroyd

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules De Goncourt

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity. — Confucius

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame De Stael

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. — Mikhail Bakunin

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage. — Joseph Glanvill

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

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. — Xun Zi

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. — Ben Jonson

Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. — Voltaire

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. — Stephen Greenblatt

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle

The entry-level job...is on its way to becoming an antiquity. — Miya Tokumitsu

Every generation", Aby Warburg mused long ago, "gets the Renaissance of Antiquity that it deserves. — Anonymous

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

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record. — Hilaire Belloc

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. — John Milton

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. — Cyprian

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there. — Henry David Thoreau

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity. — Mary Ritter Beard

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all. — Laozi

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. — Confucius

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. — William Warburton

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity. — Charles Lamb

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity? — Henry David Thoreau

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days — Plutarch

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity. — Thomas Paine

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. — Donald Hall