Sign in with your pod

Famous quotes

Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide

EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina

Said between 200 and 101 BC

• “[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus.”

  Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ihr müßt tapfere Männer sein, alle Auswege zwischen Sieg und Tod sind versperrt." - vor dem Gefecht am Ticinus 218 v.Chr zu seinen Soldaten, gemäß Titus Livius "ab urbe condita", Buch 21, 44”

  Hannibal Barkas (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Serit arbores, quae saeclo prosint alteri.”

  Caecilius Statius (219–168 BC) said by 168 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Eugene S. McCartney, "Arbores Quae Alteri Saeculo Prosint", The Classical Journal, vol. 41, no. 2 (1945), pp. 75–78

• “Bei Trübsal ist Gleichmut die beste Würze." - Rudens (Das Schiffstau), 402, II.ii / Trachalio”

  Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have composed a book on the length of the year in which I show that the tropical year contains 365 days plus a fraction of a day which is not exactly 1/4 days as the mathematicians-astronomers suppose, but which is less than 1/4 by about 1/300.”

  Hipparchus (190–120 BC) said by 120 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.”

  Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Syrus

• “Die Sache halte fest, die Worte folgen." - Ratschlag, sich als Redner auf das Thema zu konzentrieren und nicht auf seine rhetorische Ausschmückung. Überliefert durch Gaius Iulius Victor: Ars Rhetorica books.google, PONS Wörterbuch der lateinischen Redensarten, S. 130”

  Cato der Ältere (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Entstehen und Vergehen, das ist das Gesetz der Welt." - Sententiae L5, Übersetzung Wikiquote”

  Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Liebende sind Verrückte" - Andria I,3”

  Terenz (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.”

  Quintus Sextius (51–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Then Jonathan said to those with him, “Let us get up now and fight for our lives, for today things have changed considerably from the way they used to be. In front of us the battle awaits; behind us are the waters of the Jordan on one side and marshland and thickets on the other. There is no way out. Cry out to Heaven that you may be saved from our enemies.”

  Jonathan Apphus (201–143 BC) said by 143 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas.”

  Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wie ähnlich ist uns der Affe, dieses äußerst scheußliche Tier!" - zitiert bei Cicero, De Natura Deorum I, 97”

  Quintus Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Neither armies nor treasure form the bulwarks of a throne, but friends; these you can neither acquire by force of arms nor buy with gold; it is by devotion and loyalty that they are won.”

  Micipsa (201–118 BC) said by 118 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Bellum Jugurthinum by Sallust, section 10, as translated and printed in the volume of the Loeb Classical Library, Sallust, first published in 1921, and last revised in 1931.

• “Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum, ...”

  Livius Andronicus (280–200 BC) said by 200 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(Last words) My children, be courageous and grow strong in the law, for by it you will gain honour.”

  Mattathias (201–166 BC) said by 166 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, LCL 194 (1926), pp. 118, 200”

  Marcus Furius Bibaculus (103–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Adulescens, tam etsi properas te hoc saxum rogat Ut sese aspicias, deinde quod scriptum est legas. Hic sunt poetae Pacuvi Marci sita Ossa. Hoc volebam nescius ne esses. Vale.”

  Pacuvius (220–130 BC) said by 130 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Other translations: Geoffrey Johnson, "His Own Epitaph" in L. R. Lind, ed., Latin Poetry in Verse Translation (1957), p. 6

• “Aurum vis hominemne? Habeas. "Hominem? quid ad aurum?”

  Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Fragment of Book XIX, quoted by Nonius, 358, 13; Warmington (1935), p. 183

• “All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.”

  Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In bitter criticism of the prevalent domination of women (The Classical weekly, Vol. 25–26, 1932, p. 273).

• “There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.”

  Polybius (200–120 BC) said by 120 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 43 (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 13th ed., 1955)