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Said between 500 and 401 BC
“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
“[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
“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”
Anaxagoras (500–428 BC) said by 428 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frag. B 1, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.
“Лучше быть предметом зависти, чем сострадания.”
Геродот (484–425 BC) said by 425 BC at the latest wikiquote:ru, 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)
“τά τοι κάλ᾿ ἐν πολλοῖσι κάλλιον λέγειν.”
Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: l. 610, Hippolytus (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)
“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.”
Pericles (494–429 BC) said by 429 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec. 18. See also the following source provided by the "1000 Quotes Project": Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 3. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. The Macmillan Co: New York. 1916. Pg 59 o…
“Cavazzi, F. (April 12, C.E.2012), "The Early Roman Republic", Illustrated History of the Roman Empire”
Lucio Quinzio Cincinnato (451–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Homer]], The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. C.E.1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.”
Phidias (500–430 BC) said by 430 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Γίγνωσκε σαυτὸν καὶ μεθάρμοσαι τρόπους νέους. νέος γὰρ καὶ τύραννος ἐν θεοῖς.”
Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Οἱ μὲν ἀδμᾶτες ἀεικελιᾶν νούσων εἰσὶν καὶ ἄνατοι, οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις ἴκελοι.”
Bacchylides (516–451 BC) said by 451 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Fagles, 1961
“德之不修，學之不講，聞義不能徒，不善不能改，是吾憂也。”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“τὴν μεταβολὴν ὁδὸν ἄνω κάτω, τόν τε κόσμον γίνεσθαι κατ' αὐτήν.”
Heraclitus (535–471 BC) said by 471 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“Царь должен помнить три вещи: что он управляет людьми, что он обязан управлять ими согласно с законами, что он не вечно будет управлять.”
Еврипид (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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)
“A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.”
Pythagoras (583–491 BC) said by 491 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“And among these countries there was a place where previously daiva [demons] were worshiped. Afterwards, by the grace of Ahuramazda, I destroyed that sanctuary of daiva, and I proclaimed: The daiva shall not be worshipped!”
Xerxes I (519–465 BC) said by 465 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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
“στέργειν δὲ τἀκπεσόντα καὶ θέσθαι πρέπει σοφὸν κυβευτήν, ἀλλὰ μὴ στένειν τύχην.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frg. 947 TrGF (Bartlett's, 9th ed., 1892)
“В воде ты лишь свое лицо увидишь, В вине узришь и сердце ты чужое.”
Софокл (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον ἄνθρωπον εἶναι, τῶν μὲν ὄντων, ὡς ἔστι, τῶν δὲ μὴ ὄντων, ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν.”
Protagoras (490–420 BC) said by 420 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Plato, Theaetetus, sec. 152a. Translated by John Stuart Mill, "Plato", in the Edinburgh Review (April 1866)