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Said between 400 and 301 BC

• “For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.”

  Hippocrates (460–370 BC) said by 370 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Compare: "A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy", Guy Fawkes, in admitting to the Gunpowder Plot; "Diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance …

• “Bisogna essere alla mano nel parlare e servizievoli nell'agire. (217 D)”

  Antalcida (501–367 BC) said by 367 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O lampada, per tre volte in questa stanza | giurò Eraclea che sarebbe venuta. | Lo giurò solenne su di te. Ma non appare. | Se sei una dea, o lampada, castiga | l'ingannatrice: e quando si diverte | qui dentro, nelle braccia di un amico, | non mandare più luce. (da Il giuramento sulla lampada)”

  Asclepiade di Samo (320–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cosa invidiabile è forse la ricchezza: pregevole certamente, e ammirevole la rettitudine. (orazione non identificata, frammento conservato da Giovanni Stobeo in Florilegio, III, 9, 47 ed. Wachsmuth-Hense; traduzione in Oratori attici minori, p. 927)”

  Licurgo di Atene (390–324 BC) said by 324 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “La virtù basta in se stessa alla felicità, che non ha bisogno di null'altro se non del vigore di Socrate.”

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

• “[...] l'ingiustizia, quando sia in sé perfetta, è più forte, più libera, più autorevole della giustizia.”

  Trasimaco (459–399 BC) said by 399 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A prendere le amicizie si vuol andare a rilento, ma prese, sforzarsi di conservarle, perché egli è disdicevole parimente a non avere nessun amico e a mutargli spesso.”

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

• “Reggio acroterio d'Italia.”

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

• “è un animale che si nutre prevalentemente di radici, proprio perché il suo grugno è naturalmente conformato per questo tipo di attività. [...] Vogliono pascolare, del resto, con altri esemplari della stessa età. Il maiale, comunque, si batte anche con il lupo. (VIII, 6; 2015, pp. 27-28)”

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

• “[...] anche dei poeti io conobbi in breve questo: che non per sapienza poetavano come poetavano, ma per certa natura e ispirazione divina, come i profeti ed i vati, giacché questi pure dicono tante belle cose, ma poi non sanno nulla di quel che dicono. (cap. VII, p. 26)”

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

• “The man who eats with the greatest appetite has the least need of delicacies.”

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

• “φαῦλοι βροτῶν γὰρ τοῦ πονεῖν ἡσσώμενοι θανεῖν ἐρῶσιν.”

  Agathon (445–400 BC) said by 400 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Frg. 7 TrGF (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “L'arte di dare ordini e di riceverne. (215 D)”

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

• “Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.”

  Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) said by 323 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fragment 1. (Stob.21.7; Diog.#.8.85) The world's nature is a harmonious compound of infinite and finite elements; similar is the totality of the world in itself, and of all it contains. b. All beings are necessarily finite or infinite, or simultaneously finite and infinite; but they could not all be infinite only.”

  Philolaus (470–390 BC) said by 390 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Per prudenza e utilità bisogna rispettare la legge ma trasgredirla solo se conviene e spezzarla quando si ha la forza per farlo.”

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

• “Sun Pin disse: "Chi non ha ottenuto la fiducia del sovrano non agisce come suo generale". (libro V, Selezione delle truppe)”

  Sun Pin (401–316 BC) said by 316 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fortunati i tragici che hanno già tutta la storia pronta, noi comici dobbiamo inventare tutto!”

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

• “[C]oncessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.”

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

• “So, Damocles, since this life delights you, do you wish to taste it yourself and make trial of my fortune?”

  Dionysius I of Syracuse (431–367 BC) said by 367 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Θάεο τὸν Βρομίου κεραὸν τράγον, ὡς ἀγερώχως ὄμμα κατὰ λασιᾶν γαῦρον ἔχει γενύων,κυδιόων ὅτι οἱ θάμ᾽ ἐν οὔρεσιν ἀμφὶ παρῇδα βόστρυχον εἰς ῥοδέαν Ναῒς ἔδεκτο χέρα.”

  Anyte of Tegea (died 301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, ix, 745, as translated by J. R. Rodd, Love, Worship and Death (1916), "The Goat

• “Ἐπαρίστερ´ ἔμαθες, ὦ πόνηρε, γράμματα· ἀνέστροφέν σου τὸν βίον τὰ βιβλία· πεφιλοσόφηκας γῇ τε κοὐρανῷ λαλῶν, οἷς οὐθέν ἐστιν ἐπιμελὲς τῶν σῶν λόγων.”

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

  Recorded in: Φάσμα (The Ghost), in Athenaeus, bk. 15, sec. 11 (tr. C. D. Yonge, 1854)

• “Ognuno è artefice del proprio destino.”

  Appio Claudio Cieco (died 301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, “τὸ περιαιρεῖν,” ἔφη, “τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν.”

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