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Said between 200 and 101 BC

• “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

• “How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?”

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

  Recorded in: 35.2 (tr. W. R. Paton, 1925)

• “Publicanus vero ut Asiae fiam, ut scripturarius pro Lucilio, id ego nolo et uno hoc non muto omnia.”

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

  Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Nonius, 351, 6; Warmington (1935), p. 209

• “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.

• “I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.”

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

• “Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”

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

  Also quoted by: Publius Syrus

• “Facile aerumnam ferre possum, si inde abest iniuria: Etiam iniuriam, nisi contra constat contumelia.”

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

• “ما به دیگران علاقه پیدا می کنیم وقتی که آن ها به ما علاقه بیابند.”

  پوبلی لیوس (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur.”

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

• “Τοῦτο μὲν, ὦ Φαινέα, καὶ τυφλῷ δῆλον.”

  Philip V of Macedon (238–179 BC) first seen 198 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Polybius, 18, 17, 4. Rejoinder of Philip V (of Macedon) to the one-eyed Ætolian commander, Phæneas, in the Second Macedonian War, 198 BC

• “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

• “The oft-repeated allegation that Pushyamitra Sunga offered a reward for the heads of Buddhist monks is a miraculous fable related exclusively in a hostile source and contradicted by the finding of art historians that Pushyamitra was a generous patron of Buddhist institutions.”

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

  Recorded in: Elst, K. (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism.

• “The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”

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

• “Catonis modo, Galle, Tusculanum Tota creditor urbe venditabat. Mirati sumus unicum magistrum, Summum grammaticum, optumum poetam Omnes solvere posse quaestiones, Unum deficere expedire nomen: En cor Zenodoti, en iecur Cratetis!”

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

• “O flexanima atque omnium regina rerum oratio!”

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

• “«آیا ممکن است کسی به اندازه‌ای بی‌توجه یا بی‌علاقه باشد که نخواهد بداند به چه وسیله و با چه شیوه‌ای کلِّ عالم تسخیر شد و تحت سلطهٔ شهر بی‌همتای رُم قرار گرفت و آن هم در ظرف مدتی که حدوداً از پنجاه و سه سال بیشتر نشد؟»”

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

• “He who is worthy of God is also a god among men.”

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

• “Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.”

  Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain 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

• “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

• “(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