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Said between 100 and 1 BC

• “They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk.”

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

• “I will begin to speak when I am not going to say what were better left unsaid.”

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

  Recorded in: Bernadotte Perrin, ed. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 8, LCL 100 (1919), pp. 247, 361

• “Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri, Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.”

  Catullus (84–54 BC) said by 54 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent.”

  Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Viderimus nil posse creari // de nihilo”

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

• “Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “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)

• “Nec prorsum vitam ducendo demimus hilum tempore de mortis nec delibare valemus.”

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

  Recorded in: Lines 1087–1088 (tr. Rouse)

• “Tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu? servet in ambiguo, qui consulit et tibi et Urbi, Iuppiter.”

  Lucius Varius Rufus (74–14 BC) said by 14 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From Panegyricus Augusti, quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, xvi, 27; , Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118

• “To do harm is proper of the evil spirits; to do good without taking risks is proper of the ordinary spirits; the man of heart never ever deflects from what is fair and honest, never looking to rewards or to threats.”

  Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (152–91 BC) said by 91 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Religentem esse oportet, religiosus ne fuas.”

  Nigidius Figulus (98–45 BC) said by 45 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle, Mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios, ne foret aut elegis mollis qui fleret amores aut caneret forti regia bella pede.”

  Domitius Marsus (51–18 BC) said by 18 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On the Death, in the same year, of Virgil and Tibullus. Published with the corpus of Tibullus's poetry. Translated by J. B. Postgate, LCL 6 (1913)

• “Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on so that they are ready to do evil.”

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

• “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

• “Elegans, non magnificus, splendidus, non sumptuosus; omnisque diligentia munditiam, non adfluentiam adfectabat.”

  Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 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:

• “Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.”

  Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) said by 27 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Eumenides, fragment 6, from Saturae Menippeae; translation from J. Wight Duff Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964) p. 90.

• “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

• “Ἔγχει, καὶ πάλιν εἰπέ, πάλιν, πάλιν “Ἡλιοδώρας” εἰπέ, σὺν ἀκρήτῳ τὸ γλυκὺ μίσγ᾽ ὄνομα: καί μοι τὸν βρεχθέντα μύροις καὶ χθιζὸν ἐόντα, μναμόσυνον κείνας ἀμφιτίθει στέφανον. δακρύει φιλέραστον ἰδοὺ ῥόδον, οὕνεκα κείναν ἄλλοθι, κοὐ κόλποις ἁμετέροις ἐσορᾷ.”

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

  Recorded in: ("The End of the Feast") Thomas Moore, Epistles, Odes, &c. (1806), p. 69.

• “Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos.”

  Varro Atacinus (82–36 BC) said by 36 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The first two lines are an epigram from the Latin Anthology in reference to the magnificent tomb of one Licinus, the slave and steward of Julius Caesar. The two lines in answer are of more recent origin. — H. T. Riley, …

• “At scelus incesto Zmyrnae crescebat in alvo.”

  Helvius Cinna (85–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Zmyrna, quoted by , I, 268; Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 107

• “Patria est, ubicumque est bene." - post Teucrus”

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