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• “The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.”

  Justin Martyr (100–165) said by 165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 40

• “The power of the Logos, having in itself a faculty to foresee future events, not as fated, but as taking place by the choice of free agents, foretold from time to time the issues of things to come; it also became a forbidder of wickedness by means of prohibitions, and the encomiast of those who remained good.”

  Tatian (120–173) said by 173 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness, as being the servants of God and Christ.”

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

• “Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.”

  Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Difficilius est provincias obtinere quam facere; viribus parantur, iure retinentur.”

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

• “Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.”

  Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ἡ δὲ ἡδονὴ κατὰ πᾶσαν αἴσθησιν ὁπόσας ἄνθρωπος αἰσθήσεις ἔχει, καὶ δεῖ τοῖς μὲν πόνοις ἀπαντᾶν καὶ συμπλέκεσθαι, τὴν δὲ ἡδονὴν φεύγειν ὡς πορρωτάτω καὶ μηδὲν ὅλως ἢ τἀναγκαῖα ὁμιλεῖν. καὶ ἐνταῦθα ὁ κράτιστος ἀνὴρ [κράτιστος δὲ] σχεδόν, ὃς ἂν δύνηται πλεῖστον ἀποφεύγειν τὰς ἡδονάς· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔστιν ἡδονῇ συνόντα ἢ καὶ πειρώμενον συνεχῶς μὴ οὐ πάντως ἁλῶναι.”

  Dio Chrysostom (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«زندگی ما زاییده اندیشه ماست»”

  مارکوس اورلیوس (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Λούεταί τις ταχέως· μὴ εἴπῃς ὅτι "κακῶς", ἀλλ᾿ ὅτι "ταχέως". πίνει τις πολὺν οἶνον· μὴ εἴπῃς ὅτι "κακῶς", ἀλλ᾿ ὅτι "πολύν". πρὶν ἢ γὰρ διαγνῶναι τὸ δόγμα, πόθεν οἶσθα εἰ κακῶς; οὕτως οὐ συμβήσεταί σοι ἄλλων μὲν φαντασίας καταληπτικὰς λαμβάνειν, ἄλλοις δὲ συγκατατίθεσθαι.”

  Epictetus (50–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Haud secus ac stabulis procurans otia pastor in foveam parco tectam velamine frondis ducit nocte lupos positae balatibus agnae.”

  Silius Italicus (26–101) said by 101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “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…

• “Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites...”

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

• “Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. . . . We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.”

  Pliny The Younger (61–105) said by 105 at the latest bartlett, Public domain 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)

• “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.

• “To live your brief life rightly, isn't that enough? (Hays translation)”

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

• “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

• “The twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:”

  John of Patmos (50–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«پرورش روح بشر به کتاب مربوط می‌شود.»”

  پلوتارخ (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcaeus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed: "Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a State; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, there are cities and walls.”

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

  Recorded in: Vol. 2 (ed. Samuel Jebb, 1730), translated by Arthur W. Austin, The Woman and the Queen, &c. (1875) p. 90. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 8th ed. (1883) p. 373, note. Austin also translated the passage into…

• “A fence to wisdom is silence.”

  Akiba ben Joseph (50–135) said by 135 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Like a shining mirror, so must the soul of man be pure.”

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