Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
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.
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.
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.
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?
Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught. . . Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers. . . Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.
