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“Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.”
Saint Peter (1 BC–65) said by 65 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)
“הימלט בן אדם מגופך, שהוא בית כלא, בכל כוחך ומאודך, הימלט מכל התענוגים אשר הם שומרי בית הכלא, הימלט גם כן ממושגי החושים שהנך משועבד להם. השפעתם של אחרים היא גדולה אפילו אם הם אינם מדברים. אוזניהם ועיניהם מושכות אותך לדברים שהם אוהבים. הווה נאמן לעצמך, ואז תתענג על דברים טובים שהם שלך." ~ הגירת אברהם”
פילון האלכסנדרוני (15 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mira fides! credetne virum ventura propago, cum segetes iterum, cum iam haec deserta virebunt, infra urbes populosque premi proavitaque tanto rura abiisse mari? necdum letale minari cessat apex.”
Statius (45–96) said by 96 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“החינוך הוא אוצר.”
פטרוניוס (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“הַקָּצִיר רַב, אֲבָל הַפּוֹעֲלִים מְעַטִּים. לָכֵן הִתְפַּלְּלוּ אֶל אֲדוֹן הַקָּצִיר שֶׁיִּשְׁלַח פּוֹעֲלִים לִקְצִירוֹ." ~ מתי 9:37”
ישו (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“לעולם יהא האדם ענוותן כהלל ואל יהיה קפדן כשמאי." ~ מסכת שבת, ל, ע"ב”
שמאי הזקן (48 BC–30) said by 30 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Offering money to the apostles) Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
Simon Magus (50–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Canis ingens, catena vinctus, in pariete erat pictus superque quadrata littera scriptum 'Cave canem.'”
Petronius (27–66) first seen 753 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 29, translated by J. J. Pollitt, The Art of Rome, c. 753 BC–337 AD: Sources and Documents (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966) p. 147
“Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere, nihil aliis remittere; et invidiam rerum non ad causam, sed ad voluntatem personasque dirigere.”
Velleius Paterculus (19 BC–31) said by 31 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
“Non-Fijian and perhaps a western interpretation could spark insensitivity from various points of view.”
Hafiz Khan (died 22) said by 22 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“הקשיבו צעירים לאדם זקן, לו שמעו הזקנים בהיותו צעיר.”
אוגוסטוס (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”
John the Evangelist (10–98) said by 98 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead.”
Barnabas (1–61) said by 61 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“כשאין לנו כישרון אנו אומרים הכל. אדם מוכשר בוחר את דבריו.”
קוינטיליאנוס (35–96) said by 96 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amphipolis, tomb of Edonian Phyllis, washed by the Strymon and great Hellespont, all that is left of thee is the ruin of the temple of Brauronian Artemis and the disputed water of thy river. We see her for whom the Athenians strove so long now lying like a torn rag of precious purple on either bank.”
Antipater of Thessalonica (101 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Per] The Jesus Myth (1999), [G. A.] Wells ...now accepts that there is some historical basis for the existence of Jesus, derived from the lost early “gospel” “Q” (the hypothetical source used by Matthew and Luke). Wells believes that it is early and reliable enough to show that Jesus probably did exist, although this Jesus was not the Christ that the later canonical Gospels portray.”
Historical Jesus (died 33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Qualis artifex pereo.”
Nero (37–68) said by 68 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Nero" (2003) by Edward Champlin, p. 51
Also quoted by: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (la), Suetonius
“הדברים שהייתי רוצה להפנות את תשומת ליבו של כל איש, הריהם טיב החיים והמידות שהיו...”
טיטוס ליוויוס (59 BC–17) said by 17 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the infant is male and it looks as though it has no foreskin, she should gently draw the tip of the foreskin forward or even hold it together with a strand of wool to fasten it. For if gradually stretched and continuously drawn forward it easily stretches and assumes its normal length, covers the glans and becomes accustomed to keep the natural good shape.”
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“עשה לך רב, והסתלק מן הספק." ~ מסכת אבות, פרק א', משנה ט"ז”
רבן גמליאל הזקן (101 BC–52) said by 52 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.”
Marcus Manilius (100–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source