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“You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?”

Art Philosophy History Tragedy Familiar Antiquity Homicidal

Author:Tom Stoppard

“How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.”

World Light Purpose Answers History Darkness Ignorance Treated World History Antiquity Light Of The World

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.”

Long War Passion Interest Justice History Modern Subjects Mankind Policy Council Antiquity Roman Empire Deliberation

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.”

World Stills History Discipline Authority Destruction Army Structure Peaceful Ruins Display Inclination Fanatics Provinces Antiquity Barbarians Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.”

Reality Memories History Passing Passings Witness Guidance Daily Life Antiquity Tidings History Of Life

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.”

Wells History Ought Advantage Destruction Live By Profitable Antiquity

Author:Nicholas Hawksmoor

“History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”

Light Memories History Teacher Witness Messengers Antiquity

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.”

Stills Facts Science Knowledge History Consequence Historical Ancient Absurd Observation Ruins Empires Rome Testimony Medal Monument Exhibits Antiquity Exclusion Geology Ancient Rome

Book:Geological essays

Source: Geological essays