ancient quotes

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.