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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Ancients Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Ancients Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Ancients Quotes

Rita Mae Brown

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

Richard Rohr

Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

– Richard Rohr

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

– Pierre de Fermat

Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

– Mortimer Adler

Martin Chemnitz

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

– Martin Chemnitz

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

John Updike

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

– John Updike

John Boyd Orr

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

– John Boyd Orr

Jenna Wortham

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

– Jenna Wortham

George Santayana

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

– George Santayana

F Sionil Jose

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

– F Sionil Jose

Eric Greitens

It’s really important to have role models, and a lot of the ancients always talked about this. Seneca talked about this, Aristotle talked about this, and in fact, this was my boxing coach’s philosophy in college, was that you have to have role models.

– Eric Greitens

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