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Said between 200 and 101 BC

• “Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !”

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

• “For what gives my work its peculiar quality, and what is most remarkable in the present age, is this. Fortune has guided almost all the affairs of the world in one direction and has forced them to incline towards one and the same end; a historian should likewise bring before his readers under one synoptical view the operations by which she has accomplished her general purpose.”

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

  Recorded in: 4.1–2 (tr. W. R. Paton, 1922)

• “I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.”

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

  Recorded in: As quoted in Hannibal : Enemy of Rome (1992) by Leonard Cottrell, p. 150.

• “While I was still young, before I went on my travels,”

  Ben Sira (301–151 BC) said by 151 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Si dejas de esperar, dejarás de temer».”

  Hecato de Rodas (201–161 BC) said by 161 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”

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

  Also quoted by: Publius Syrus

• “The pursuits of commerce would be as admirable as they are profitable if they were not subject to so great risks: and so, likewise, of banking, if it was always honestly conducted. For our ancestors considered, and so ordained in their laws, that, while the thief should be cast in double damages, the usurer should make four-fold restitution.”

  Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “The two best-known cases, involving Pushyamitra Shunga and Shashank, cannot withstand historical criticism. The non-contemporary story (which surfaces more than three centuries after the facts) about Pushyamitra's offering money for the heads of monks is rendered improbable by firm historical facts of his allowing and patronizing monasteries and Buddhist universities in his domains.”

  Pushyamitra Shunga (301–148 BC) said by 148 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«La primera virtud es frenar la lengua, y es casi un dios quien, teniendo razón, sabe callarse».”

  Catón el Viejo (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Un amigo seguro se ve en un asunto incierto». [Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur].”

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

• “According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less lonely than when alone.”

  Scipio Africanus (235–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Ningún hombre digno pedirá que se le agradezca aquello que nada le cuesta».”

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

• “Accipiunt leges, populus quibus legibus exlex.”

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

  Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXX, quoted by Nonius, 10, 10; Warmington (1935), p. 331

• “Mirum videtur quod sit factum iam diu?”

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

  Recorded in: Cp. Sophocles, Ajax, 1266–7; see: E. M. Sanford, "The Tragedies of Livius Andronicus", The Classical Journal, vol. 18, no. 5 (1923), p. 280

• “Nihil tam incertum nec tam inaestimabile est quam animi multitudinis.”

  Philip V of Macedon (238–179 BC) said by 179 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Evan T. Sage, tr., Livy in Fourteen Volumes, IX (1935), p. 101

  Also quoted by: Titus Livius Patavinus (la)

• “大風起兮雲飛揚， 威加海內兮歸故鄉， 安得猛士兮守四方。”

  Emperor Gaozu of Han (256–195 BC) said by 195 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«En los Estados marítimos dedicados al comercio, nada parece vergonzoso si es provechoso y útil».”

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

• “«La ley no da los mismos derechos al pobre que al rico».”

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

• “«Toda multitud es como el mar, que abandonado a sí mismo permanece naturalmente inmóvil, hasta que los vientos y las tormentas lo excitan».”

  Publio Cornelio Escipión el Africano (235–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source