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Said between 500 and 401 BC

• “Ο κόσμος είναι τόσο μικρός, που θα μπορούσε να χωρέσει στο χέρι ενός τίμιου ανθρώπου”

  Ζήνων (490–425 BC) said by 425 BC at the latest wikiquote:el, 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

• “Reason not with him, that will deny the principal truths!”

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

• “May Ahuramazda bear me aid, with the gods of the royal house; and may Ahuramazda protect this country from a (hostile) army, from famine, from the Lie!”

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

• “ὄνος δ᾿ ὄνῳ κάλλιστον, ὗς δέ θην ὑί.”

  Epicharmus of Kos (540–435 BC) said by 435 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Frg. 279.5 K.-A. = B 5 DK (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.”

  Parmenides (515–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Zunshine, Lisa (C.E.2013). Nabokov at the Limits Redrawing Critical Boundaries. Taylor & Francis. p. 109.”

  Lucio Quinzio Cincinnato (451–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “Ύμνοι που με τα λόγια σας τη λύρα κυβερνάτε, ποιον θεό, ποιον ήρωα και ποιον άνθρωπο θα υμνήσουμε;”

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

• “Ἡ γῆ μέλαινα πίνει, πίνει δένδρεα δ᾽ αὖ γῆν. πίνει θάλασσ᾽ ἀναύρους, ὁ δ᾽ ἥλιος θάλασσαν, τὸν δ᾽ ἥλιον σελήνη· τί μοι μάχεσθ᾽, ἑταῖροι, καὐτῷ θέλοντι πίνειν;”

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

  Recorded in: Odes, 21 (tr. Harbottle, 1897, p. 384)

• “... When I became king, I built much excellent (construction). What had been built by my father (Darius I), that I protected, and other building I added. What moreover I built, and what my father built, all that by the favor of Ahuramazda we built.”

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

• “This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.”

  Herodotus (484–425 BC) said by 425 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A. Nauck, ed. Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1888)”

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

• “Έλληνες είναι εκείνοι, που όχι μόνο μιλούν ελληνικά, αλλά και σκέπτονται σαν Έλληνες.”

  Αριστείδης (540–467 BC) said by 467 BC at the latest wikiquote:el, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον ἄνθρωπος. Θεαίτητος”

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

• “Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

  Pericles (494–429 BC) said by 429 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Homage to Greece (1943)

• “ὀλβίσαι δὲ χρή βίον τελευτήσαντ᾿ ἐν εὐεστοῖ φίλῃ.”

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

• “實而備之，強而避之，怒而撓之，卑而驕之，佚而勞之，親而離之，出其不意，攻其不備。”

  Sun Tzu (544–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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 μηδὲν· εἰ τοίνυν μηδὲν ἦν, οὐδαμὰ ἂν γένοιτο οὐδὲν ἐκ μηδενός᾿.”

  Μέλισσος ο Σάμιος (491–431 BC) said by 431 BC at the latest wikiquote:el, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “φορτηγοὶ δ᾿ ἄρχουσι, κακοὶ δ᾿ ἀγαθῶν καθύπερθεν.”

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

• “μακάριος ἦν ὁ πρὸ τοῦ βίος βροτοῖσιν πρὸς τὰ νῦν, ὃν εἶχον ἄνδρες ἀγανόφρονες ἡδυλόγῳ σοφίᾳ βροτῶν περισσοκαλεῖς.”

  Cratinus (500–426 BC) said by 426 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Mahābhāshya was commented on in the seventh century by Bhartṛihari in his Vākyapadīya which is concerned with the philosophy of grammar, and by Kaiyaṭa (probably thirteenth century). About 650 A.D. was composed the first complete commentary on Pāṇini, the Kāçikā Vṛitti or "Benares Commentary," by Jayāditya and Vāmana.”

  Pāṇini (520–460 BC) said by 460 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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