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• “La filosofia in effetti è il più grande dei beni e il più prezioso agli occhi di Dio, l'unico che a lui ci conduce e a lui ci unisce, e sono davvero uomini di Dio coloro che han volto l'animo alla filosofia [...].”

  Giustino martire (100–165) said by 165 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it.”

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

• “(To Jesus) I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”

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

• “A volte qualcuno lo rimproverava per la sua tendenza ad agire prevalentemente con l'inganno: dicevano che era indegno di Eracle vincere con trucchi, senza battersi a viso aperto. Egli rideva e rispondeva che, se la pelle di leone non serviva, bisognava cucirsi una pelle di volpe. (229 B)”

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

• “Spesso commette ingiustizia non solo chi fa ma anche chi non fa. (IX, 5; 2008)”

  Marco Aurelio (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.”

  Flavius Josephus (37–100) said by 100 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)

• “Eri lascivo nei versi, pudico nel cuore.”

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

• “Industrioso e grande amante della verità.”

  Claudio Tolomeo (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “δεῖν οὖν τὸν φρόνιμον ἄνδρα, ὥσπερ τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἰατρόν, ὅπου πλεῖστοι κάμνουσιν, ἐκεῖσε ἰέναι βοηθήσοντα, οὕτως ὅπου πλεῖστοί εἰσιν ἄφρονες, ἐκεῖ μάλιστα ἐπιδημεῖν, ἐξελέγχοντα καὶ κολάζοντα τὴν ἄνοιαν αὐτῶν.”

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

• “Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.”

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

• “In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.”

  Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “If geometry exists, arithmetic must also needs be implied... But on the contrary 3, 4, and the rest might be 5 without the figures existing to which they give names. Hence arithmetic abolishes geometry along with itself, but is not abolished by it, and while it is implied by geometry, it does not itself imply geometry.”

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

• “In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.”

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

• “Meminimus quanto maiore animo honestatis fructus in conscientia quam in fama reponatur. Sequi enim gloria, non appeti debet.”

  Pliny the Younger (61–113) said by 113 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “εἰ κατανοήσεις τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράγματα, εὕροις ἂν αὐτὰ οὔτε ἐλπίδος οὔτε φόβου ἄξια.”

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

  Recorded in: 9.20 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897); attributed to

• “Perché il dio che ha concesso a lui di ispirare paura, a me ha concesso di non provarla.”

  Apollonio di Tiana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote:it, 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

• “Whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist.”

  Polycarp (69–155) said by 155 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

• “Il suo solo difetto è di non avere difetti. (lib. IX, ep. 26)”

  Plinio il Giovane (61–113) said by 113 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Coloro che corrompono le famiglie non erediteranno il regno di Dio.”

  Ignazio di Antiochia (35–108) said by 108 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The length of lifetakes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.”

  Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source