Ancient Quotes
M. R. Kale, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53790/page/n235/mode/2up Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava Cantos I-VII] (Bombay: Standard Publishing Co., 1917)
Kālidāsa
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Ancient Greek mathematics
Ab-Soul
A Sudra, whether bought or unbought he may do servile work; for he was created by the Self-Existent (Svayambhu) to be the slave of a Brahmana.
Kunwar Narain
We have hereafter only two roads to choose: one is to embrace the ancient literature and die, the other is to forsake the ancient literature and live.
Zhou Xun
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Ancient Impossible
Chojin
And I, albeit I come in Time's late hour,
Achieve what lay not in the ancients' power.
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
By relating an ancient instance of white colonization in a dark subcontinent, it confirmed the colonial worldview.
Gita Gopinath
[https://archive.org/stream/sextusempiricusa17556gut/17556.txt Full text of Pyrrhonic Sketches online]
Sextus Empiricus
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O Dhū Kaffayn we are not your worshipers. Our birth is more ancient than yours. Indeed I stuffed your heart with fire.
Ibn Tufayl
A Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as a descendant from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary, but you and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord... there should be a statute of limitations for that crime.
Lenny Bruce
O Dhū Kaffayn we are not your worshipers. Our birth is more ancient than yours. Indeed I stuffed your heart with fire.
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq