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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients said: Hulk to be whole (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients stole all our ideas from us (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten (Ancients Quotes)
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients (Ancients Quotes)
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying (Ancients Quotes)
Seek not the paths of the ancients;Seek that which the ancients sought (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue (Ancients Quotes)
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry (Ancients Quotes)
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book (Ancients Quotes)
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority (Ancients Quotes)