| 1. | In ordinary times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell out the date. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | Apol., or the fancy of Stallbaum that Plato intentionally left anachronisms indicating the dates at which some of his Dialogues were written. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | That anachronisms whether of religion or law, when men have reached another stage of civilization, should be got rid of by fictions is in accordance with universal experience. - from The Republic by Plato |