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• “Magnos homines virtute metimur, non fortuna.”

  Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec morti esse locum.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quidem concessum est rhetoribus ementiri in historiis ut aliquid dicere possint argutius.”

  Cicero (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Every seat in the theatre was taken when Philip appeared wearing a white cloak, and by his express orders his bodyguard held away from him and followed only at a distance, since he wanted to show publicly that he was protected by the goodwill of all the Greeks, and had no need of a guard of spearmen.”

  Diodorus Siculus (90–20 BC) said by 20 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 16.93.1, translated by C. Bradford Welles, LCL 422 (1963), p. 95

• “Ἀχήεις τέττιξ, δροσεραῖς σταγόνεσσι μεθυσθείς, ἀγρονόμαν μέλπεις μοῦσαν ἐρημολάλον ἄκρα δ᾽ ἐφεζόμενος πετάλοις, πριονώδεσι κώλοις αἰθίοπι κλάζεις χρωτὶ μέλισμα λύρας. ἀλλά, φίλος, φθέγγου τι νέον δενδρώδεσι Νύμφαις παίγνιον, ἀντῳδὸν Πανὶ κρέκων κέλαδον, ὄφρα φυγὼν τὸν Ἔρωτα, μεσημβρινὸν ὕπνον ἀγρεύσω ἐνθάδ᾽ ὑπὸ σκιερᾷ κεκλιμένος πλατάνῳ.”

  Meleager of Gadara (151–51 BC) said by 51 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ("To the Tree-Locust") C. A. Elton, Specimens of the Classical Poets, i (1814), p. 414.

• “Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly. Grass and trees wither; geese go south.”

  Emperor Wu of Han (156–87 BC) first seen 127 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Autumn Wind 127 BC (translated by Arthur Waley), Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 930

• “«از خویشاوندان به‌راحتی می‌توان برید، اما رشته دوستی را هرگز.»”

  سیسرو (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Xanthians, suspecting my kindness, have made their country the grave of their despair; the Patareans, trusting themselves to me, enjoy in all points their former liberty; it is in your power to choose the judgment of the Patareans or the fortune of the Xanthians.”

  Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC) said by 42 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then!”

  Cleopatra (69–30 BC) said by 30 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«عشق سوختن صمیمانه درد است که با زمان تغذیه می شود. در روزها و شب های متناوب تو از غمی غریب درد می کشی و از آن لذت می بری، به تدریج سوختن این درد تمام می شود و با آن، عشق نیز پایان می یابد و اگر نتوانی درد جدیدی را جایگزین این درد کهنه کنی، دگر نمی توانی عشق را درک کنی.»”

  لوکرتیوس (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”

  Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives , by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499<!-- ; also quoted in p. 372 Handy-Book of Literary Curiositie…

• “Bear in mind, that if through toil you accomplish a good deed, that toil will quickly pass from you, the good deed will not leave you so long as you live; but if through pleasure you do anything dishonourable, the pleasure will quickly pass away, that dishonourable act will remain with you for ever.”

  Cato the Younger (95–46 BC) said by 46 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: John C. Rolfe, ed. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 3, LCL 212 (1928), p. 131

• “There are never any occasions when you need think yourself safe because you wield the weapons of Fortune; fight with your own! Fortune does not furnish arms against herself; hence men equipped against their foes are unarmed against Fortune herself.”

  Posidonius (135–51 BC) said by 51 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.”

  Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Lucentes, mea vita, nec smaragdos, beryllos neque, Flacce mi, nitentes percandida margarita quaero nec quos Tunnica lima perpolivit anellos nec iaspios lapillos.”

  Gaius Maecenas (died 8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.”

  Sallust (86–35 BC) said by 35 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.”

  Catiline (108–62 BC) first seen 86 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted by Sallust (86 BC – c. 35 BC) in Catiline's War, Book XX, pt. 4 (trans. J. C. Rolfe)

  Also quoted by: Gaius Sallustius Crispus (la)

• “There is no fixed road to wealth, and money has no permanent master.”

  Sima Qian (145–86 BC) said by 86 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Νυκτερινή, δίκερως, φιλοπάννυχε, φαῖνε, Σελήνη, φαῖνε, δι᾽ εὐτρήτων βαλλομένη θυρίδων αὔγαζε χρυσέην Καλλίστιον ἐς τὰ φιλεύντων ἔργα κατοπτεύειν οὐ φθόνος ἀθανάτῃ. ὀλβίζεις καὶ τήνδε καὶ ἡμέας, οἶδα, Σελήνη: καὶ γὰρ σὴν ψυχὴν ἔφλεγεν Ἐνδυμίων.”

  Philodemus of Gadara (110–35 BC) said by 35 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: J. A. Symonds Jr., Studies of the Greek Poets (1873), p. 380:

• “Οὐκέτι παφλάζοντα διαΐσσων βυθὸν ἅλμης δελφίς, πτοιήσεις εἰναλίων ἀγέλας, οὐδὲ πολυτρήτοιο μέλος καλάμοιο χορεύων ὑγρὸν ἀναρρίψεις ἅλμα παρὰ σκαφίσιν οὐδὲ σὺ γ᾽, ἀφρηστά, Νηρηίδας ὡς πρὶν ἀείρων νώτοις πορθμεύσεις Τηθύος εἰς πέρατα. ἦ γὰρ ἴσον; πρηῶνι Μαλείης ὡς ἐκυκήθη, κῦμα πολυψάμμους ὦσέ σ᾿ ἐπὶ ψαμάθους.”

  Aulus Licinius Archias (121–61 BC) said by 61 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, vii, 214; "A Stranded Dolphin", as translated by A. J. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel (1922), p. 46

• “How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”

  Sulla (138–78 BC) said by 78 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Go and get accurate information about the child. As soon as you have found him, report to me, so that I too may go & honor him.”

  Herod the Great (74–4 BC) said by 4 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet, divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.”

  Lucretius (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lines 1117–1119 (tr. Rouse)