He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.
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Chapter 4 “The Emperor” (in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945))Isaac Asimov
Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. [The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.] These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Francis Bacon
Fools! Do you argue, that things ancient ought, on that account, to be true and noble! Fallacies and Falsehoods there were from time immemorial, and dare you argue that because these are ancient these should prevail?
In ancient times, do you think that there was not the ignorant, and the shallow minded? And why after all should you embrace so fondly a carcass of dead thoughts. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.Subramanya Bharathi
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
Regarding technique, from ancient times it has been said that movements must fly like lightning and attacks must strike like thunder.
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