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Said between 400 and 301 BC
“A general good at commanding troops is like one sitting in a leaking boat or lying under a burning roof. For there is no time for the wise to offer counsel nor the brave to be angry. All must come to grips with the enemy. And therefore it is said that of all the dangers in employing troops, timidity is the greatest and that the calamities which overtake an army arise from hesitation.”
Wu Qi (440–381 BC) said by 381 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wuzi ('The Word of Wu') ch. 2, sec. 2. Translated by Samuel b. Griffith, Sun Tzu: The Art of War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963) appx. 1, p. 159
“βουλεύου μὲν βραδέως, ἐπιτέλει δὲ ταχέως τὰ δόξαντα.”
Isocrates (436–338 BC) said by 338 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“Não pensem que um ser humano possa ser muito diferente de outro. A verdade é que fica com vantagem quem tiver sido formado na escola mais rude.”
Tucídides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parece-me que o bom cidadão deve preferir as palavras que salvam às palavras que agradam.”
Demóstenes (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And Clitarchus and others say that in Carthage, during great prayers, they place a boy in the hands of Cronus (a bronze statue is set up, with outstretched hands, and under it a baking oven) and then put fire under; the boy shrunk by the fire seems to laugh.”
Cleitarchus (401–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Φείδῃ παρθενίης· καὶ τί πλέον; οὐ γὰρ ἐς Ἅιδην ἐλθοῦς᾽ εὑρήσεις τὸν φιλέοντα, κόρη. ἐν ζωοῖσι τὰ τερπνὰ τὰ Κύπριδος· ἐν δ᾽ Ἀχέροντι ὀστέα καὶ σποδιή, παρθένε, κεισόμεθα.”
Asclepiades of Samos (320–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, bk. 5, no. 85 (ed. & tr. W. R. Paton, vol. i, 1916, p. 169)
“Virtue is the health of the soul.”
Aristo of Chios (300–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.”
Thucydides (461–395 BC) said by 395 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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
“τέχνη τύχην ἔστερξε καὶ τύχη τέχνην.”
Agathon (445–400 BC) said by 400 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frg. 6 TrGF (tr. R. W. Browne, 1850)
“χρήματα πορίζειν ⟨δ᾿⟩ εὐπορώτατον γυνή, ἄρχουσά τ᾿ οὐκ ἂν ἐξαπατηθείη ποτέ· αὐταὶ γάρ εἰσιν ἐξαπατᾶν εἰθισμέναι.”
Aristophanes (445–385 BC) said by 385 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: : Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
“Para realizar qualquer coisa que seja é preciso ter critérios. Nada é realizado sem eles.”
Mozi (470–391 BC) said by 391 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A hora da partida chegou, e seguimos os nossos caminhos - eu de morrer e você de viver. Qual é o melhor, só Deus sabe.”
Sócrates (470–399 BC) said by 399 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was going into a theatre, meeting face to face those who were coming out, and being asked why, "This," he said, "is what I practise doing all my life.”
Diogenes of Sinope (400–323 BC) said by 323 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.”
Hippocrates (460–370 BC) said by 370 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O desejo de riquezas obscurece o sentido do que é justo e do que é injusto”
Antífanes (408–334 BC) said by 334 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A riqueza e a pobreza das pessoas encontram-se não em seus bens imóveis, mas em seus corações.”
Antístenes (445–365 BC) said by 365 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?”
Epaminondas (418–362 BC) said by 362 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Plutarch
“οὐ γὰρ ἡ πληγὴ παρέστησε τὴν ὀργήν, ἀλλ᾿ ἡ ἀτιμία.”
Demosthenes (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XXI.72 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)
“Ὅτι δι' αἵματος, οὐ διὰ μέλανος, τοὺς νόμους ὁ Δράκων ἔγραψεν.”
Demades (381–317 BC) said by 317 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Plutarch, Life of Solon, sec. 17 (tr. Bernadotte Perrin, 1923). See also: Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, bk. 11, ch. 18, and 'draconian'
“Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.”
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) said by 323 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source