The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Since ancient times people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents knowledge and energy helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together and he might not get home for years.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

Meditation while walking has a long noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

In a country like France so ancient their history is full of outstanding people so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all the one in fact that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

A new breeze is blowing and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart if not in fact the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient lifeless tree.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.