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Said between 500 and 401 BC
“τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι”
Heraclitus (535–471 BC) said by 471 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ἤδη γάρ ποτ’ ἐγὼ γενόμην κοῦρός τε κόρη τε θάμνος τ’ οἰωνός τε καὶ ἔξαλος ἔλλοπος ἰχθύς.”
Empedocles (494–434 BC) said by 434 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Word-for-word translation] O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient.”
Simonides of Ceos (556–468 BC) said by 468 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Περὶ μὲν θεῶν οὐκ ἔχω εἰδέναι οὔθ᾽ ὡς εἰσίν, οὔθ᾽ ὡς οὐκ εἰσίν· πολλὰ γὰρ τὰ κωλύοντα εἰδέναι, ἥ τ᾿ ἀδηλότης καὶ βραχὺς ὢν ὁ βίος τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.”
Protagoras (490–420 BC) said by 420 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, b. 9, sec. 51. Translated by R. D. Hicks, vol. 2 (1925) p. 465. Diogenes adds: "For this introduction to his book the Athenians expelled him; and they burnt hi…
“W. R. Paton, tr. Greek Anthology, Vol. 2, LCL 68 (1917)”
Chaeremon (400–401 BC) said by 401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“اعتق مأ أحببت، فإذا عاد إليك فهو ملك لك إلى الأبد.”
كونفوشيوس (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Statue of Zeus in Olympia”
Polykleitos (490–420 BC) said by 420 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Phidias
“Cicero, On Old Age, § 16”
Lucio Quinzio Cincinnato (451–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ἐπιπολάζειν οὔτι χρὴ τὸν θυμόν, ἀλλὰ τὸν νόον.”
Epicharmus of Kos (540–435 BC) said by 435 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frg. 264 K.-A. = B 43 DK (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Plutarch, in Lives as translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (1850), p. 225
“What is God-given is what we call human nature. To fulfil the law of our human nature is what we call the moral law. The cultivation of the moral law is what we call culture.”
Zisi (483–402 BC) said by 402 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937), p. 143
“βούλεο δ᾿ εὐσεβέων ὀλίγοις σὺν χρήμασιν οἰκεῖν ἢ πλουτεῖν ἀδίκως χρήματα πασάμενος.”
Theognis of Megara (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 145–146 (tr. H. B. Harbottle, 1897)
“τὰ δειλὰ κέρδη πημονὰς ἐργάζεται.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 326 (Cassell's, 1907)
“Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.”
Pericles (494–429 BC) said by 429 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken.”
Parmenides (515–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... This is what I did by the favor of Ahuramazda in one and the same year after that I became king: 19 battles I fought; by the favor of Ahuramazda I smote them and took prisoner 9 kings.”
Darius I of Persia (550–486 BC) said by 486 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“لا تستطيع أن تنزل في نفس النهر مرتين.”
هرقليطس (535–471 BC) said by 471 BC at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“τὸ σῶφρον ὡς ἁπανταχοῦ καλὸν καὶ δόξαν ἐσθλὴν ἐν βροτοῖς καρπίζεται.”
Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ll. 431–32, Chorus (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)
“Śroṇa, whatever ascetics or brahmins conceive "I am superior" or "I am equal" or "I am inferior" based on form … feeling … perception … volitional activities … consciousness that is impermanent, not lasting, not gratifying, of the nature to decay; this, Śroṇa, is nothing but those ascetics or brahmins not seeing in accordance with reality.”
Śāriputra (568–484 BC) said by 484 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sanskrit Fragment 89 (Śroṇa Sūtra), as translated by Bhikkhu Sujato (1907)
“Among the earliest attempts to explain Pāṇini was the formulation of rules of interpretation or paribhāshās; a collection of these was made in the last century by Nāgojibhaṭṭa in his Paribhāshenduçekhara.”
Pāṇini (520–460 BC) said by 460 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.”
Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10
“الحياة على الأرض حصلت على مساعدة من الفضاء.”
أناكساغوراس (500–428 BC) said by 428 BC at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Καὶ Μέλισσος δὲ τὸ ἀγένητον τοῦ ὄντος ἔδειξε τῶι κοινῶι τούτωι χρησάμενος ἀξιώματι· γράφει δὲ οὕτως·᾿ἀεὶ ἦν ὅ τι ἦν καὶ ἀεὶ ἔσται. Εἰ γὰρ ἐγένετο, ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι πρὶν γενέσθαι εἶναι μηδέν· εἰ τοίνυν μηδὲν ἦν, οὐδαμὰ ἂν γένοιτο οὐδὲν ἐκ μηδενός᾿.”
Melissus of Samos (491–431 BC) said by 431 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source