Antiquity Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name
1	All the transactions of the past differ very little from those of the present.	Antoninus	Marcus
2	When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have not compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.	Burke
3	Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in the purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.	Chapin	E
4	I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read, what blockheads wrote.	Chesterfield	Lord
5	Antiquity is enjoyed not by the ancients who lived in the infancy of things, but by us who live in their maturity.	Colton	Charles Caleb
6	The earliest and oldest and longest has still the mastery of us.	Eliot	George
7	What subsists today by violence, continues tomorrow by acquiescence, and is perpetuated by tradition, till at last the hoary abuse shakes the grayhairs of antiquity at us, and gives itself out as the wisdom of ages.	Everett	Edward
8	Antiquity! -- like its ruins better than its reconstructions.	Joubert	Joseph
9	Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.	Pascal	Blaise
10	Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.	Schiller

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