Famous quotes containing the words vulgar and/or era:
“The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)