Time wrongs antiquity. [ Proverb ]

Rich with the spoils of time. [ Gray ]

Antiquity is the aristocracy of History. [ A. Dumas pere ]

Antiquity is not always a mark of verity. [ Proverb ]

The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. [ Pope ]

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. [ Joubert ]

Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth. [ Proverb ]

Pride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. [ Zimmermann ]

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age, and high top bald with dry antiquity. [ William Shakespeare ]

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. [ Bishop Warburton ]

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity, is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. [ Plutarch ]

Hypocrisy of manners, a vice peculiar to modern nations, has contributed more than one thinks to destroy that energy of character which distinguished the nations of antiquity. [ Condorcet ]

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight. [ Hazlitt ]

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]

It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]