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“All my life have I been reared among the Sages, but I have found nothing better for the body than silence; 'Tis not the conveyance of teachings which is the principal [aim], but rather the discharge of one's duty (i.e. action). Whosoever is verbose brings on sin.”
Simeon ben Gamliel (10 BC–69) said by 69 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vellem nescire literas.”
Nero (37–68) said by 68 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will sing a song to the Lord my God, for He has looked upon me, and has taken away the reproach of mine enemies; and the Lord has given the fruit of His righteousness, singular in its kind, and richly endowed before Him.”
Saint Anne (55 BC–12) said by 12 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Si veris magna paratur fama bonis et si successu nuda remoto inspicitur virtus, quidquid laudamus in ullo maiorum, fortuna fuit.”
Lucan (39–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, 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
“A physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man.”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Messalina shows a greed that is matched only by her eroticism and wickedness. She obtains the death sentence for several large landowners on various pretexts, but in reality for the sole purpose of seizing their property.”
Messalina (20–48) said by 48 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“W. R. Paton, The Greek Anthology, Vol. 3, LCL 69 (1917)”
Antipater of Thessalonica (101 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.”
Quintilian (35–96) said by 96 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is frome above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
James, son of Zebedee (1–44) said by 44 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wisdom … never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself.”
Philo (15 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oculos et vestigia domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius admittit.”
Columella (4–70) said by 70 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Re Rustica, IV. 18: Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), Lemma "Agriculture" p. 18-19.
“Siquidem locutus aliter fuerit, dabo operam ut rationem factorum meorum dictorumque reddam; si perseveraverit, in vicem eum odero.”
Tiberius (42 BC–37) said by 37 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(To Pontius Pilate referring to Jesus) Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”
Pontius Pilate's wife (6–81) said by 81 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.”
Augustus (63 BC–14) said by 14 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement made as he was dying, as quoted in The Fall of the Roman Empire (2007) by Rita J. Markel, p. 126
“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)
“Primi omnium eloquentiam perdidistis. Levibus enim atque inanibus sonis ludibria quaedam excitando, effecistis ut corpus orationis enervaretur et caderet.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 2, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“स्वर्ग में और पृथ्वी पर सारे अधिकार मुझे दिए गए हैं।”
ईसा (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”
Strabo (63 BC–23) said by 23 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book 7, ch. 7, secs. 4-5 (tr. H. L. Jones, vol. 3, 1924)
“Dulce loqui miseris veteresque reducere questus.”
Statius (45–96) said by 96 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nec nocte paratum, plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.”
Persius (34–62) said by 62 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.”
John the Evangelist (10–98) said by 98 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source