Famous quotes containing the words martial and/or reception:
“The country in the town. [Rus in urbe.]”
—Marcus Valerius Martial (c. 40–104)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)