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Said between 500 and 401 BC

• “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)

• “... 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

• “प्रबुद्ध शासक हमेशा चौकन्ना रहता है, और अच्छा सेना नायक पूर्णतः सतर्क।.”

  सून जू (544–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest.”

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

  Recorded in: Frag. B12, in Jonathan Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy (1984), p. 190.

• “शुनेव यूना प्रसभं मघोना प्रधर्शिता गौत्मधर्मपत्नी ।”

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

• “οὐκ ἔστι βίος ὃς οὐχὶ κέκτηται κακά, λύπας, μερίμνας, ἁρπαγάς, στρεβλάς, νόσους· τούτων ὁ θάνατος καθάπερ ἰατρὸς φανεὶς ἀνέπαυσε τοὺς ἔχοντας ἀναπαύσας ὕπνῳ.”

  Diphilus (351–401 BC) said by 401 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?”

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

• “ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή”

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

• “Plutarch, Artaxerxes, l. 1. c. 1. 11:129 - cited by Ussher, Annals, para. 1179”

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

• “ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς αἰθόμενον πῦρ ἅτε διαπρέπει νυκτὶ μεγάνορος ἔξοχα πλούτου.”

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

• “Such being the nature of absolute truth, it manifests itself without being seen; it produces effects without motion; it accomplishes its ends without action.”

  Zisi (483–402 BC) said by 402 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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)

• “There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.”

  Parmenides (515–470 BC) said by 470 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

• “凡用兵之法，全國爲上；破國次之；全軍爲上，破軍次之；全旅爲上，破旅次之；全卒爲上，破卒次之；全伍爲上，破伍次之。”

  Sun Tzu (544–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “In soft regions are born soft men.”

  Herodotus (484–425 BC) said by 425 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

• “Παυροεπὴς Ἤριννα, καὶ οὐ πολύμυθος ἀοιδαῖς: ἀλλ᾽ ἔλαχεν Μούσας τοῦτο τὸ βαιὸν ἔπος. τοιγάρτοι μνήμης οὐκ ἤμβροτεν, οὐδὲ μελαίνης νυκτὸς ὑπὸ σκιερῇ κωλύεται πτέρυγι: αἱ δ᾽ ἀναρίθμητοι νεαρῶν σωρηδὸν ἀοιδῶν μυριάδες λήθῃ, ξεῖνε, μαραινόμεθα. λωίτερος κύκνου μικρὸς θρόος ἠὲ κολοιῶν κρωγμὸς ἐν εἰαριναῖς κιδνάμενος νεφέλαις.”

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

  Recorded in: Antipater of Sidon, Anthologia Palatina, vii, 713, as translated by A. J. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel (1892), p. 59: "Preface to Êrinna’s Poems

• “τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ ἔργον μετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει, σφετέρᾳ δ' εἰκότα γέννᾳ.”

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

• “Συμποσίων δ᾽ ἐρατῶν βρίθοντ᾽ ἀγυιαί, παιδείοι θ᾽ ὕμνοι φλέγονται.”

  Bacchylides (516–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Philip Ayres, 1687