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Said between 500 and 401 BC

• “F. C. Babbitt, tr. Pluarch's Moralia, Vol. 2, LCL 222 (1928)”

  Chaeremon (400–401 BC) said by 401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Längst heißt mir Schweigen allen Grames einz'ger Arzt!" - Agamemnon 548 / Chorführer”

  Aischylos (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Οὕτως οὖν ἀίδιόν ἐστι καὶ ἄπειρον καὶ ἓν καὶ ὅμοιον πᾶν.”

  Melissus of Samos (491–431 BC) said by 431 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Μέλισσος ο Σάμιος (el)

• “ἀλλὰ βροτῶν τὸν μὲν κενεόφρονες αὖχαι ἐξ ἀγαθῶν ἔβαλον· τὸν δ᾿ αὖ καταμεμφθέντ᾿ ἄγαν ἰσχὺν οἰκείων παρέσφαλεν καλῶν χειρὸς ἕλκων ὀπίσσω θυμὸς ἄτολμος ἐών.”

  Pindar (517–437 BC) said by 437 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Nem. XI.29–32 (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1873)

• “Der Mensch ist das klügste aller Wesen, weil er Hände hat." - Überliefert durch Aristoteles, De partibus animalium, IV, 10; 687 a 7”

  Anaxagoras (500–428 BC) said by 428 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.”

  Protagoras (490–420 BC) said by 420 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in Plato, Protagoras, sec. 361a–b. Translated by C. C. W. Taylor, Plato: 'Protagoras' (Oxford, 1976) p. 56

• “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)

• “Die Erde als die einzige bevölkerte Welt im unendlichen All anzusehen, ist ebenso absurd wie die Behauptung, auf einem ganzen mit Hirse besäten Feld würde nur ein einziges Korn wachsen". - nach Ernst Sandvoss: Vom Homo sapiens zum Homo spaciens, in: Weltbilder der Philosophie - Aufsätze und Vorträge. Hamburg 2007, S. 150 books.google”

  Metrodoros von Chios (501–401 BC) said by 401 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “The vase is now in the Reza Abbasi Museum in Teheran (inv. 53). image inscription”

  Artaxerxes I of Persia (501–424 BC) said by 424 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.”

  Sun Tzu (544–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If now you shall think that "How many are the countries which King Darius held?" look at the sculptures [of those] who bear the throne, then shall you know, then shall it become known to you: the spear of a Persian man has gone forth far; then shall it become known to you: a Persian man has delivered battle far indeed from Persia.”

  Darius I of Persia (550–486 BC) said by 486 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Große Dinge sind immer mit großen Gefahren verknüpft." - Überliefert von Herodot, Historien (Book 7, Ch. 50)”

  Xerxes I. (519–465 BC) said by 465 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Denn wie [diese beiden Kräfte (Streit und Liebe)] vordem waren, so werden sie auch [fürder] sein, und ich glaube, nimmer wird die unendliche Ewigkeit dieser beiden beraubt sein. - Fragmente, Aus: Über die Natur, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Griechisch und Deutsch von Hermann Diels, 1. Band, Berlin 41922, S. 223-264 www.zeno.org , 16.”

  Empedokles (494–434 BC) said by 434 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Μολὼν λαβέ [Molōn labe!]”

  Leonidas I (died 480 BC) said by 480 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “君子食無求飽，居無求安，敏於事而慎於言，就有道而正焉，可謂好學也已。”

  Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “…καὶ δὶς γάρ, ὅ δεῖ, καλόν ἐστιν ἐνισπεῖν.”

  Empedocles (494–434 BC) said by 434 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.”

  Xenophanes (570–478 BC) said by 478 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Fragment 27, as quoted in Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, trans. J. H. Lesher (University of Toronto Press, 2001), p. 124

• “Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably.”

  Alexander I of Macedon (died 454 BC) said by 454 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “… ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει [sc. ὁ Σιμωνίδης], τὴν δὲ ποίησιν ζωγραφίαν λαλοῦσαν.”

  Simonides of Ceos (556–468 BC) said by 468 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Σιμωνίδης ο Κείος (el)

• “Der Charakter des Menschen ist sein Schicksal." - Fragmente, B 119”

  Heraklit (535–471 BC) said by 471 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”

  Pythagoras (583–491 BC) said by 491 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sei bei mir, in Maßen zwar, doch verlasse mich nicht." - über den Wein, gemäß Plutarch Moralia, Vorschriften zur Gesundheit, Kapitel 19”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Πηγὴ ῥέουσα πειθοῦς.”

  Anacreon (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Odes, XVIII, 18 (6) (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 479)