关键词: ancients
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. 酒神巴克斯,n。酒神古代发明的一种方便的神，用作醉酒的借口 -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. 古人对权力的规定比对自由的规定更了解。 -- Edward Dahlberg 爱德华·达尔伯格
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. 坚信我们的信仰和古人的信仰是一样的。否认这一点，你就瓦解了教会的团结。 -- Thomas Aquinas 托马斯·阿奎那
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. 在英语中，我们必须用形容词来区分不同种类的爱，古人对这种爱有不同的名字。 -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. 古人建议我们向上帝献祭，但弥尔顿却向魔鬼献祭。 -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. 有些人非常好学古人所做的事，他们不知道如何与现代人相处。 -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. 文艺复兴时期的思想不是朝圣者的思想，而是像古人一样，定居于城市的思想。 -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. 古人的许多作品已成碎片。现代人的许多作品在其起源时都是碎片。 -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 卡尔·威廉·施勒格尔
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age. 说现代人，不可轻看;说古人，不可拜偶像;评判他们的标准是他们的优点，而不是他们的年龄。 -- Earl of Chesterfield 查斯特菲尔德
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. 也许，子孙后代会感谢我，因为我证明了古人并非无所不知。 -- Pierre de Fermat 费马皮埃尔
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. 从现代人想要什么，我们必须学会诗歌应该成为什么;从古人所做的，诗必须是什么。 -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 卡尔·威廉·施勒格尔