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“Being good is the same as being a philosopher. If you obey your father, you will follow the will of a man; if you choose the philosopher's life, the will of God. It is plain, therefore, that your duty lies in the pursuit of philosophy.”
Gaius Musonius Rufus (25–95) said by 95 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment 16 "What is the best provision for old age," in Moral Exhortation (1986), p. 32
“Every sea is sea. Why do we foolishly blame the Cyclades or the Hellespont, and the Sharp Isles? They merit not their evil fame; for why, when I had escaped them, did the harbour of Scarphaea drown me? Let who will pray for fair weather to bring him home; Aristagoras, who is buried here, knows that the sea is the sea.”
Antipater of Thessalonica (101 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. ... Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
Luke the Evangelist (died 84) said by 84 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.”
James, brother of Jesus (100–62) said by 62 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much; and receive every man with a friendly countenance.”
Shammai (48 BC–30) said by 30 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly-admired saying, "My friends, I have lost a day." (Diem perdidi)”
Titus (39–81) said by 81 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Suetonius, Life of Titus, sec. 8 (tr. A. Thomson and T. Forester, 1911)
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James, son of Zebedee (1–44) said by 44 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quid crastina volveret aetas scire nefas homini.”
Statius (45–96) said by 96 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pecunia non olet.”
Vespasian (9–79) said by 79 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Vespasiano (pt)
“‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ Instantly, I saw him.”
Ananias of Damascus (100–60) said by 60 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.”
Marcus Manilius (100–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book IV, line 924, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (classical) (1897), p. 130.
“Gospel of John”
Thomas the Apostle (1–72) said by 72 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vtrubique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere quae falsa sunt: verumque est illud quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere.”
Quintilian (35–96) said by 96 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cum lux altera venit, iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.”
Persius (34–62) said by 62 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Saint Stephen (1–36) said by 36 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Praesidibus onerandas tributo provincias suadentibus rescripsit boni pastoris esse tondere pecus non deglubere.”
Tiberius (42 BC–37) said by 37 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Suetonius
“My soul has been magnified this day.”
Saint Anne (55 BC–12) said by 12 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything of this sort is not anger, but the semblance of anger, like that of boys who want to beat the ground when they have fallen upon it, and who often do not even know why they are angry, but are merely angry without any reason or having received any injury, yet not without some semblance of injury received, or without some wish to exact a penalty for it.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!”
Caligula (12–41) said by 41 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Suetonius, Life of Gaius Caligula, sec. 30, as translated in Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of History. Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Mahometan Conquest (London: John and Charles Mozley, 1852) ch. …
“En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said disparagingly of a group of men in cloaks, quoting Virgil's The Aeneid. Augustus allowed only those wearing a toga and no cloak to enter the Forum; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 40. Translation: Robert Gr…