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Said between 500 and 401 BC

• “רָנִּי וְשִׂמְחִי בַּת צִיּוֹן כִּי הִנְנִי בָא וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְתוֹכֵךְ נְאֻם יְהוָה." ~”

  זכריה (551–450 BC) said by 450 BC at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ὕδωρ δὲ πίνων οὐδὲν ἂν τέκοις σοφόν.”

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

• “I do not seek for death, I do not seek for birth; I abide my time, when my time comes, I shall go.”

  Śāriputra (568–484 BC) said by 484 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: T 1670 (Nāgasena Bhikṣu Sūtra), translated by Guang Xing (2008)

• “וְלוּ הָיָה בְּיַד הַזָּהָב לְהַאֲרִיךְ שְׁנוֹת־חַיַּי, הָיִיתִי צוֹבְרוֹ וְצוֹבְרוֹ, אַף לֹא אָמַרְתִּי דַּיִּי.”

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

• “Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.”

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

• “The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.”

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

  Recorded in: Frag. B 17, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.

• “ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν πάντων νόμιμον διάτ᾽ εὐρυμέδοντος αἰθέρος ἠνεκέως τέταται διά τ᾽ ἀπλέτου αὐγῆς.”

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

  Recorded in: fr. 135, as quoted in Aristotle's Rhetoric, 1373 b16

• “זהו קשר אמיץ להיות הורים ולהתרגל לחיות יחדיו.”

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

• “חובתי לספר מה שמספרים, אולם אין חובתי להאמין בכל מה שמספרים. דברי אלה יפה כוחם לגבי כל סיפורי.”

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

• “ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ᾿ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος. ἀλλ᾿ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ, λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών.”

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

  Recorded in: Alternate translation (R. S. Thomas, 1985):

• “κακὴ ... δελφῖνος ἐν χέρσῳ βία.”

  Ion of Chios (490–422 BC) said by 422 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Frg. 58 TrGF; quoted in Plutarch, Demosthenes, sec. 3 (tr. Bernadotte Perrin, 1919)

• “Αἰθίοπές τε σιμοὺς μέλανάς τε Θρῇκἐς τε γλαυκοὺς καὶ πυρρούς .”

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

• “Livy, History, III, § 35.”

  Lucio Quinzio Cincinnato (451–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Book of Daniel. Montex Publish Company, By Jim McGuiggan 1978, p. 147.”

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

• “ἀγαθὸν γαμεῖν καὶ ἀγαθὰ τίκτειν”

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

  Also quoted by: Λεωνίδας (el)

• “האתונאים צודקים כאשר הם מקבלים את עצתו של כל אדם, היות שמוטל על כל אזרח להביע את דעתו בענייני המדינה.”

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

• “When they [the Athenians] meet for a consultation on civic art, where they should be guided throughout by justice and good sense, they naturally allow advice from everybody, since it is held that everyone should partake of this excellence, or else that states cannot be.”

  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. 322d–e. Translated by W. R. M. Lamb, Plato, vol. 4 (1924) p. 135

• “Strike, if you will, but hear.”

  Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Familiar Quotations, 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723

• “Στᾶλαι, καὶ Σειρῆνες ἐμαί, καὶ πένθιμε κρωσσέ, ὅστις ἔχεις Ἀΐδα τὰν ὀλίγαν σποδιάν, τοῖς ἐμὸν ἐρχομένοισι παρ᾿ ἠρίον εἴπατε χαίρειν, αἴτ᾿ ἀστοὶ τελέθωντ᾿, αἴθ᾿ ἑτέρας πόλιος· χὤτι με νύμφαν εὖσαν ἔχει τάφος, εἴπατε καὶ τό· χὤτι πατήρ μ᾿ ἐκάλει Βαυκίδα, χὤτι γένος Τηνία, ὡς εἰδῶντι· καὶ ὅττι μοι ἁ συνεταιρὶς Ἤρινν᾿ ἐν τύμβῳ γράμμ᾿ ἐχάραξε τόδε.”

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

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, vii, 710, as translated by C. A Elton, Specimens of the Classic Poets, Vol. 1 (1813), p. 117: "Epitaph on a Virgin of Mitylene, who died on her weddding-day

• “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

• “Thracian filly, tell me why You look askance when I come nigh, And flee unkind, as though I knew Naught of how to manage you? Should it please me, truth to tell, I could bridle you right well, And take and ride you hand on rein Up the course and down again; And if instead you graze your fill And frisk it in the meadow still, 'Tis but because a man like me Knows how long to leave you free.”

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

  Recorded in: Iambics, Book IV, 84 (tr. Edmonds, 1931, vol. i, p. 27)

• “מאה ניצחונות במאה קרבות הוא לא הטוב שבטוב. ניצחון ללא קרב הוא הטוב שבטוב.”

  סון דזה (544–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.”

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

• “אם אתה מטיל ספק, אל תעשה.”

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