Quotes on Antiquity

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

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.

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

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.

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

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

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

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

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.