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• “Nosse fidem rerum dubiasque exquirere causas, ingenium sacrare caputque attollere caelo, scire quot et quae sint magno natalia mundo principia ... divina est animi ac iucunda voluptas.”

  Lucilius Junior (6–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Two other sciences in the same way will accurately treat of 'size': geometry, the part that abides and is at rest, [and] astronomy, that which moves and revolves.”

  Nicomachus (60–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Womanly appearance requires neither a pretty nor a perfect face or form.”

  Ban Zhao (45–116) said by 116 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lessons for Women in Pan Chao: A Girl of Old China by Paul Anderson (1953)

• “Let your accusations be few in number, even if they be just.”

  Pope Sixtus I (42–126) said by 126 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “τοῦ δὴ συγγραφέως ἔργον ἕν—ὡς ἐπράχθη εἰπεῖν. [. . .] ἓν γάρ, ὡς ἔφην, τοῦτο ἴδιον ἱστορίας, καὶ μόνῃ θυτέον τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, εἴ τις ἱστορίαν γράψων ἴοι, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ἁπάντων ἀμελητέον αὐτῷ, καὶ ὅλως πῆχυς εἷς καὶ μέτρον ἀκριβές, ἀποβλέπειν μὴ εἰς τοὺς νῦν ἀκούοντας ἀλλ᾿ εἰς τοὺς μετὰ ταῦτα συνεσομένους τοῖς συγγράμμασιν.”

  Lucian (120–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 59.39 (tr. H. W. Fowler, F. G. Fowler, 1905)

• “Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make States; but men who are able to rely upon themselves.”

  Aelius Aristides (117–189) said by 189 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Vol. 1 (ed. Samuel Jebb, 1722), translated by Arthur W. Austin, The Woman and the Queen: A Ballad, and Other Specimens of Verse (Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1875) p. 90

• “Tibi istum ad munimentum mei committo, si recte agam; sin aliter, in me magis.”

  Trajan (53–117) said by 117 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: One day as Trajan was putting a captain of the guards (or a prætorian prefect) in possession of his post, he gave him a drawn sword or dagger, according to the custom, and spoke thus. Related by Aurelius Victor, De Caes…

• “Let the presbyters be compassionate and merciful to all, bringing back those that wander, visiting all the sick, and not neglecting the widow, the orphan, or the poor.”

  Polycarp (69–155) said by 155 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ἡ τὰ ῥόδα, ῥοδόεσσαν ἔχεις χάριν ἀλλὰ τί πωλεῖς; σαυτήν, ἢ τὰ ῥόδα; ἠὲ συναμφότερα;”

  Dionysius the Sophist (50–150) said by 150 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A. C. Benson, "The Flower-Girl", The Reed of Pan (1922), p. 169:

• “Very little is needed to make a happy life.”

  Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Lento enim gradu ad vindictam sui divina procedit ira tarditatemque supplicii gravitate pensat.”

  Valerius Maximus (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: I, 1, ext. 3 (tr. Samuel Speed, 1678)

• “Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.”

  Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Animula vagula blandula, hospes comesque corporis, quae nunc abibis in loca, pallidula, rigida, nudula, nec ut soles dabis iocos?”

  Hadrian (76–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Hadrian's Dying Farewell to His Soul", in the Historia Augusta, "Hadrianus", pt. 2, sec. 25, par. 9 (tr. J. W. Duff, 1934)

• “Sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.”

  Apuleius (125–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Haec nova, quae praeter consuetudinem ac morem maiorum fiunt, neque placent neque recta videntur.”

  Suetonius (69–150) said by 150 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O wonder beyond wonders, rapture, power, and amazement is it, that one can say nothing at all about the gospel, nor even conceive of it, nor compare it with anything.”

  Marcion of Sinope (85–160) said by 160 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Possibly the opening lines of Marcion's Antithesis. Quoted in Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle (2006) by Joseph B. Tyson, p. 31.

• “The Roman History of Lucius J. Florus made English (London: T.J. for Samuel Speed, 1669)”

  Florus (70–140) said by 140 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No more on fresh green twigs thou'lt sit a-swinging,— No more with sweet and penetrative strain, Noisy Cicada, shall we hear thee singing, For a child’s hand hath caught thee and hath slain.”

  Pamphilus of Alexandria (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lilla Cabot Perry, tr., From the Garden of Hellas (1891), p. 78

• “προφυλάσσω δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν θηρίων τῶν ἀνθρωπομόρφων.”

  Ignatius of Antioch (35–108) said by 108 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(After taking Paul's belt and tying his feet and hands) And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. When he had come to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

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

• “Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.”

  Hillel the Elder (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For the fact that the blind do not see, it cannot be concluded that the sunlight does not shine. Rightly therefore they attribute their darkness to themselves and to their eyes.”

  Theophilus of Antioch (200–183) said by 183 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Alius quidam veterum poetarum, cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est, Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.”

  Aulus Gellius (130–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source