Quotes About Ancient

one century after the death of Christ he raised a very ordinary, if beautiful, Greek boy to be the last pagan god of ancient Rome.

To the Romans, Egypt was exciting: incomprehensible, with a pleasing hint of malignity.

The Cynics, too, had Socratic roots. Their founder, Antisthenes, had known both Socrates and Plato personally

If Aristotle had been right and it was man's destiny to be free, if our nature as human beings makes us fit to govern our lives as we see fit, then why is it that everywhere we look human beings are unfree and submit to various forms of tyranny and slavery, including now in Florence? Why did freedom fail, not only in Florence but throughout history—even ancient Greece and Rome?

The Florentines of the generation of 1402, men like Bruni and Alberti, had wanted to use the rediscovery of the ancient Greeks and Romans to change the world. Marsilio Ficino wanted to use it to change the self.

Christianity no longer just summed up ancient civilization's highest aims, as Justin and Clement had argued. It now had the power to save that civilization, Origen proclaimed, by bringing the highest moral principles down to earth right here.

The Academy's most famous dropout was raised in Macedonia, the Texas of ancient Greece.

No other ancient city demonstrated so powerfully Aristotle's assertion that "a difference of capacities among its members enables them to attain a higher and better life by the mutual exchange of their different services." From that point of view alone, Alexandria was already Aristotle's city.

Spartan citizens were not allowed to use money, practice a trade, make a statue, or write a poem.

His name was Saul. He had come to Athens to deliver a message. A Jew by birth and a Greek by language and culture, Saul of Tarsus was also a Roman citizen. In fact, it is by his Romanized name, Paul, that we know him best. His message would be delivered in the language of ancient philosophy, in Greek, and would shake the ancient world to its foundations.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

I have seen the sunset, stained with mystic horrors,Illumine the rolling waves with long purple forms,Like actors in ancient plays.

I long for Europe of the ancient parapets.

turn your face towards the lances of rain, the soul towards ancient wisdom. And

This earth of ours is old, how old we do not know, possibly millions of years. But "the word" was before all things. He was not only from the beginning, but He was "in the beginning.

sublevatas. Una de las últimas fue Calahorra, que ofreció heroica resistencia popular —de ahí viene el antiguo refrán: Calahorra, la que no resiste a Roma es zorra—

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.

A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.

When we hack into the ancient behavioral pathways in our brains, we gain access to the amazing human potential for learning and change.

Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly.

In the most intellectual city of the ancient world, in its most intellectual age, Socrates, its most intellectual inhabitant, discouraged the study of physics because they engendered uncertainty, and did not augment human happiness. The kind of knowledge which is most connected with human progress now was that least connected with it then.

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.