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• “And so Ananias went forth and entered the house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on your way has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

  Ananias of Damascus (100–60) said by 60 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My Lord and my God.”

  Thomas the Apostle (1–72) said by 72 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«کسانی به خرد دست یافته‌اند که گمان نمی‌برده‌اند دارای آن هستند.»”

  سنکا (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

  Saint Peter (1 BC–65) said by 65 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

• “More than her beauty, she has left in history the memory of her immorality. This is so famous that her name alone, if I may say so, has become a programme in itself. It is true that her immodesty is appalling. Today's doctors would assure us that she is afflicted with the evil they call “nymphomania”, that is to say, an “exacerbation of sexual instincts”.”

  Messalina (20–48) said by 48 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec te quaesiveris extra.”

  Persius (34–62) said by 62 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”

  Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 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

• “These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God.”

  John the Evangelist (10–98) said by 98 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.”

  Pliny the Elder (20–79) said by 79 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«کوروش سپیدمه کسی بود که به هر کجای اروپا که پا گذاشت منشاء هنر حیرت‌آور خود را گسترد.»”

  پلینیوس (20–79) said by 79 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We give to necessity the praise of virtue.”

  Quintilian (35–96) said by 96 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “«مشتی از خاک را در دست گرفتم، آن را بالا نگه داشتم و نابخردانه به اندازهٔ هر ذره از آن، تقاضای عمر کردم؛ اما فراموش کردم که درخواست کنم آن سال‌ها، سال‌های جوانی باشند.»”

  اووید (43 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quod defles, illud amasti.”

  Lucan (39–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Æquo stat fœdere tempus.”

  Marcus Manilius (100–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dixi et nunc et saepe alias, p[atres]. c[onscripti]., bonum et salutarem principem, quem vos tanta et tam libera potestate instruxistis, senatui servire debere et universis civibus saepe et plerumque etiam singulis; neque id dixisse me paenitet, et bono et aequos et faventes vos habui dominos et adhuc habeo.”

  Tiberius (42 BC–37) said by 37 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By three things is the world sustained: by judgment, by truth, and by peace.”

  Simeon ben Gamliel (10 BC–69) said by 69 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Vae, puto, deus fio... imperatorem stantem oportet mori.”

  Vespasian (9–79) said by 79 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quintili Vare, legiones redde!”

  Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus, who commanded the three legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 23. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.

• “Nunquam autem recte faciet, qui cito credit, utique homo negotians.”

  Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sec. 43, translated by Michael Heseltine (1913)

• “arma non servant modum; nec temperari facile nec reprimi potest stricti ensis ira; bella delectat cruor.”

  Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it? If a brother or a sister is lacking clothing and enough food for the day, yet one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but you do not give them what they need for their body, of what benefit is it? So, too, faith by itself, without works, is dead.”

  James, son of Zebedee (1–44) said by 44 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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