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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
“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)
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Haec est Italia diis sacra”
Pliny the Elder (20–79) 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.
“(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
“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
“My Lord and my God.”
Thomas the Apostle (1–72) said by 72 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Πᾶσα θάλασσα θάλασσα: τί Κυκλάδας στενὸν Ἕλλης κῦμα καὶ Ὀξείας ἠλεὰ μεμφόμεθα; ἄλλως τοὔνομ᾽ ἔχουσιν ἐπεὶ τί με, τὸν προφυγ́οντα κεῖνα, Σκαρφαιεὺς ἀμφεκάλυψε λιμήν; νόστιμον εὐπλοΐην ἀρῷτό τις: ὡς τά γε πόντου πόντος, ὁ τυμβευθεὶς οἶδεν Ἀρισταγόρης.”
Antipater of Thessalonica (101 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
James, son of Zebedee (1–44) said by 44 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.”
Lucan (39–65) said by 65 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
“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)
“In that very hour he became overjoyed in the holy spirit and said: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have carefully hidden these things from wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to young children. Yes, O Father, because this is the way you approved.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dat poenas laudata fides.”
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote:la, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Magni pectoris est inter secunda moderatio.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 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. …
“Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.”
Livy (59 BC–17) said by 17 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
“And I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever, 17 the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither sees it nor knows it. You know it, because it remains with you and is in you.”
John the Evangelist (10–98) said by 98 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“non vitae, sed scholae discimus. -- falso: non scholae, sed vitae discimus”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote:la, 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.
“Omnia tela modi melius finxere salubres.”
Grattius (51 BC–50) said by 50 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source