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«And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.»
«If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition»
«As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.»
«And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.»
«Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, Bacchus, convenient, deity
«AVERNUS, n. The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions. The fact that access to the infernal regions was obtained by a lake is believed by the learned Marcus Ansello Scrutator to have suggested the Christian rite of baptism by immersion. This, however, has been shown by Lactantius to be an error._Facilis descensus Averni,_ The poet remarks; and the sense Of it is that when down-hill I turn I Will get more of punches than pence. --Jehal Dai Lupe»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, Avernus, baptism, descensus, immersion, infernal, Lactantius, lake, pence, punches, rite
«BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? --Jorace»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancients, convenient, devotions, thump, thumping, thumps, whack, whacked, whacking, whacks
«ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians --may their souls be happy in Heaven!»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, early Christians, Elysium, fable, swept
«BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Creativity,
Mathematics,
Principles
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ancients, dreamed, grasp, principle, pure mathematics, reside, resided, resides, residing
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