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Said between 400 and 301 BC

• “«El infinito no es un estado estable sino el crecimiento mismo».”

  Aristóteles (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “αἰσχρὸν νέᾳ γυναικὶ πρεσβύτης ἀνήρ.”

  Aristophanes (445–385 BC) said by 385 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Frg. 616 K.-A. (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “Observing that a certain malefactor bore torture with remarkable firmness, he said, “What a great rogue he must be, whose courage and constancy are bestowed on crime alone!”

  Agesilaus II (444–360 BC) said by 360 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Suppose we try to locate the cause of disorder, we shall find it lies in the want of mutual love.”

  Mozi (470–391 BC) said by 391 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Verily we know nothing. Truth is buried deep. (Another translation: "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well." Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers R.D. Hicks, Ed.)”

  Democritus (461–361 BC) said by 361 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ὁ δὲ Κλείταρχός φησιν ἁμάξας τετρακύκλους δένδρα κομιζούσας τῶν μεγαλοφύλλων, ἐξ ὧν ἀπήρτηται γένη τετιθασσευμένων ὀρνέων, ὧν εὐφωνότατον μὲν εἴρηκε τὸν ὠρίωνα, λαμπρότατον δὲ κατὰ τὴν ὄψιν καὶ πλείστην ἔχοντα ποικιλίαν τὸν καλούμενον κατρέα· τὴν γὰρ ἰδέαν ταῷ μάλιστα ἐγγίζειν, τὴν δὲ λοιπὴν εἰκονογραφίαν παρ᾿ ἐκείνου ληπτέον.”

  Cleitarchus (401–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: F 20 FGrHist; Strabo, Geography, bk. XV, ch. i, sec. 69 (tr. H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer, 1854)

• “οὐθεὶς πώποτε, ὦ δέσποτ᾿, ἀπέθαν᾿ ἀποθανεῖν πρόθυμος ὤν, τοὺς γλιχομένους δὲ ζῆν κατασπᾷ τοῦ σκέλους ἄκοντας ὁ Χάρων ἐπὶ τὸ πορθμεῖόν τ᾿ ἄγει σιτιζομένους καὶ πάντ᾿ ἔχοντας ἀφθόνως. ὁ δὲ λιμός ἐστιν ἀθανασίας φάρμακον.”

  Antiphanes (408–334 BC) said by 334 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Frg. 86 K.-A. (tr. F. A. Paley, 1889)

• “«Todo lo que sé sobre el amor, se lo debo a ella».”

  Diotima (451–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[T]he freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.”

  Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«El amigo debe ser como el dinero que, antes de tenerlo, se sabe el valor que tiene».”

  Sócrates (470–399 BC) said by 399 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The unwritten laws of the gods were promulgated against depraved manners, inflicting a severe destiny and penalty on the disobedient; and these unwritten laws are the fathers and leaders of those that are written, and of the dogmas established by men.”

  Archytas (430–345 BC) said by 345 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Thomas Taylor (Tr.) Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other Ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobæus; and also, Ethical Fragments of Pierocles (1822)

• “λόγος δυνάστης μέγας ἐστίν, ὃς σμικροτάτῳ σώματι καὶ ἀφανεστάτῳ θειότατα ἔργα ἀποτελεῖ· δύναται γὰρ καὶ φόβον παῦσαι καὶ λύπην ἀφελεῖν καὶ χαρὰν ἐνεργάσασθαι καὶ ἔλεον ἐπαυξῆσαι.”

  Gorgias (485–375 BC) said by 375 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity. (tr. M. Gagarin, P. Woodruff, 1995)

• “Faber est quisque fortunae suae (or) Faber est suae quisque fortunae (or) Est unusquisque faber ipsae suae fortunae.”

  Appius Claudius Caecus (died 301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: This quote from Appius' famous speech (279 BC) opposing peace with the Greek general Pyrrhus I is sourced from the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works, Sallust, within a letter of political counsel writt…

• “It is difficult to set forth any of the greater ideas, except by the use of examples; for it would seem that each of us knows everything that he knows as if in a dream and then again, when he is as it were awake, knows nothing of it all.”

  Plato (429–349 BC) said by 349 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ἣν γὰρ ὁ βέλτιστα πράττειν νομίζων καὶ ἀρίστην ἔχειν οἰόμενος οὐκ οἶδεν εἰ μενεῖ τοιαύτη μέχρι τῆς ἑσπέρας.”

  Demosthenes (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: XVIII.252 (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1864)

• “«Nadie poseerá casa propia excepto en caso de absoluta necesidad».”

  Platón (429–349 BC) said by 349 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “πρός τε τὸ Ποντικὸν μειράκιον μέλλον φοιτᾶν αὐτῷ καὶ πυθόμενον τίνων αὐτῷ δεῖ, φησί, “βιβλιαρίου καινοῦ καὶ γραφείου καινοῦ καὶ πινακιδίου καινοῦ,” τὸν νοῦν παρεμφαίνων.”

  Antisthenes (445–365 BC) said by 365 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«No te contentes con alabar a las gentes de bien, imítalas».”

  Isócrates (436–338 BC) said by 338 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With wine and words of love and every vow He lulled me into bed and closed my eyes, A sleepy, stupid innocent . . . So now I dedicate the spoils of my surprise: The silk that bound my breasts, my virgin zone, The cherished purity I could not keep. Goddess, remember we were all alone, And he was strong—and I was half asleep.”

  Hedylus (300–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Louis Untermeyer, "Seduced Girl", The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry (2003)

• “The Spartans do not ask how many the enemies are but where they are.”

  Agis II (470–398 BC) said by 398 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.”

  Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Generation of Animals as translated by Arthur Leslie Peck (1943), p. 175

• “«Una golondrina no hace el verano» [μía xeλɩdùv čaр où поιЄî ].”

  Aristófanes (445–385 BC) said by 385 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hui Shih was a man of many devices and his writings would fill five carriages. But his doctrines were jumbled and perverse and his words wide of the mark. His way of dealing with things may be seen from these sayings:”

  Hui Shi (370–310 BC) said by 310 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Zapatero a tus zapatos».”

  Apeles (370–306 BC) said by 306 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source