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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
“The even is that which can be divided into two equal parts without a unit intervening in the middle; and the odd is that which cannot...”
Nicomachus (60–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ὦτα καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ πολλοὶ βασιλέως.”
Lucian (120–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 31.23 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)
“cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est”
Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Μundo morere, ejus insaniam rejiciens: vive Deo, per ipsius cognitionem, veterem generationem repudians. Νοn facti sumus ut moreremur, sed nostra culpa morimur. Perdidit nos libera voluntas: servi facti sumus, qui liberi eramus: per peccatum venditi sumus. Νihil mali factum est a Deo: nos ipsi improbitatem produximus. Εam vero qui produxerunt, denuo repudiare possunt.”
Tatian (120–173) said by 173 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 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
“I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.”
Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece
“ταύτην [δλδ. Χριστιανική πίστη] μόνην εὕρισκον φιλοσοφίαν ἀσφαλῆ τε καὶ σύμφορον.”
Ιουστίνος ο Μάρτυρας (100–165) said by 165 at the latest wikiquote:el, 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)
“Την επικίνδυνη ελευθερία από την ήσυχη δουλεία προτιμώ.”
Τάκιτος (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote:el, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abscisa relincunt membra gelu, fractosque asper rigor amputat artus.”
Silius Italicus (26–101) said by 101 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
“Quamlibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt quod negatum est.”
Pliny the Younger (61–113) said by 113 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.
“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In some of the manuscripts, the books begins with this epigram (Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p. 55).
“When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
John of Patmos (50–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Bartholomew the Apostle (101 BC–100) said by 100 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
“Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“τόπος μηδένα φυσιούτω· τὸ γὰρ ὅλον ἐστὶν πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη, ὧν οὐδὲν προκέκριται.”
Ignatius of Antioch (35–108) said by 108 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source