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Said between 500 and 401 BC

• “Se qualcuno ordinasse a tutti gli uomini di radunare in un sol luogo tutte le leggi che si credono brutte e di scegliere poi quelle che ciascuno crede belle, neppure una ne resterebbe, ma tutti si ripartirebbero tutto. (frammento 18)”

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

• “I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world.”

  Herodotus (484–425 BC) said by 425 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

• “Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.”

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

  Recorded in: As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)

• “La sazietà genera insolenza, quando la prosperità si accompagni | a un uomo malvagio e che non abbia sana la mente. (1, 153-4)”

  Teognide (570–485 BC) said by 485 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, 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)

• “πουλύπου ὀργὴν ἴσχε πολυπλόκου, ὃς ποτὶ πέτρῃ, τῇ προσομιλήσῃ, τοῖος ἰδεῖν ἐφάνη.”

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

• “[...] della ricchezza pure è grande il potere, poiché anche l'uomo da nulla essa rende valente.”

  Bacchilide (516–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, 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

• “Ἀνὴρ ἄκομπος, χεὶρ δ᾽ ὁρᾷ τὸ δράσιμον.”

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

• “ὅστις γὰρ αὐτὸς αὑτὸν οὐκ αἰσχύνεται συνειδόθ᾿ αὑτῷ φαῦλα διαπεπραγμένῳ, πῶς τόν γε μηδὲν εἰδότ᾿ αἰσχυνθήσεται;”

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

  Recorded in: Frg. 92 K.-A. (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1873)

• “Solo il tempo rivela l'uomo giusto; il malvagio, invece, lo riconosci in un giorno solo.”

  Sofocle (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Τίκτει δέ τε θνατοῖσιν Εἰρήνα μεγάλα στρ. πλοῦτον μελιγλώσσων τ' ἀοιδᾶν ἄνθεα, δαιδαλέων τ᾽ ἐπὶ βωμῶν θεοῖσιν αἴθεσθαι βοῶν ξανθᾷ φλογί μῆρα τανῦτρίχων τε μήλων γυμνασίων τε νέοις αὐλῶν τε καὶ κώμων μέλειν.”

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

  Recorded in: Philip Ayres, 1687

• “Venerable sir, this is the entire holy life (brahmacariya), that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship.”

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

  Recorded in: SN 45.3 (Sāriputta Sutta), as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (2000)

• “gettai(?) lo scudo nei gorghi del fiume | dalle belle acque.”

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

• “English translation: A lion took the dear life of Panini, author of the grammatical treatise.”

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

  Recorded in: In Panchtantra quoted in: Maurice Winternitz, Moriz Winternitz History of Indian Literature, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1 January 1985, p. 462.

• “L'unica cosa che certamente faremo sarà di morire per i Greci. (225 A)”

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

• “οὐ λέγειν τύ γ᾿ ἐσσὶ δεινός, ἀλλὰ σιγῆν ἀδύνατος.”

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

  Recorded in: Frg. 184 K.-A. = B 29 DK (tr. K. Freeman, 1948)

• “James D. G. Dunn; John William Rogerson (November 19, C.E.2003). Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-8028-3711-0.”

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

• “For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.”

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

  Recorded in: Statement to his son, as quoted in Familiar Quotations 9th Edition (1894) edited by J. Bartlett, p. 723

• “Livy, History, III, §§ 28–29.”

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

• “Poiché l'aria e l'etere si separano dal molto che li involge e tale involucro per quantità è illimitato. (frammento 2)”

  Anassagora (500–428 BC) said by 428 BC at the latest wikiquote:it, 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)

• “Tοῖς Ἄργει Σπάρτηθεν ἶσαι χέρες, ἶσα δὲ τεύχη συμβάλομεν Θυρέαι δ᾽ ἦσαν ἄεθλα δορός. ἄμφω δ᾽ ἀπροφάσιστα τὸν οἴκαδε νόστον ἀφέντες οἰωνοῖς θανάτου λείπομεν ἀγγελίαν.”

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