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• “πᾶν μὲν τὸ δυσέφικτον παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς εὐδιάβλητον ἔχει φύσιν”

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

• “cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est”

  Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 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

• “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)

• “Debita carminibus libertas ista; sed omnis in vero mihi cura: canam quo fervida motu aestuet Aetna novosque rapax sibi congerat ignes.”

  Lucilius Junior (6–100) said by 100 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

• “Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.”

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

• “אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?”

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

  Also quoted by: Hilel, o Ancião (pt)

• “Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.”

  Pausanias (110–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, 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…

• “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.

• “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)

• “Atque ita tribus et viginti plagis confossus est uno modo ad primum ictum gemitu sine voce edito, etsi tradiderunt quidam Marco Bruto irruenti dixisse: και συ τέκνον.”

  Suetonius (69–150) said by 150 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

• “Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.”

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

• “God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him.”

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

• “He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.”

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

  Also quoted by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

• “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:

• “Εἰ μὲν τὸ σῶμά σού τις ἐπέτρεπε τῷ ἀπαντήσαντι, ἠγανάκτεις ἄν· ὅτι δὲ σὺ τὴν γνώμην τὴν σεαυτοῦ ἐπιτρέπεις τῷ τυχόντι, ἵνα, ἐὰν λοιδορήσηταί σοι, ταραχθῇ ἐκείνη καὶ συγχυθῇ, οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ τούτου ἕνεκα;”

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

  Recorded in: Alternative translation (N. P. White, 1983):

• “My soul being taught of God, I discerned that the former class of writings lead to condemnation, but that these put an end to the slavery that is in the world, and rescue us from a multiplicity of rulers and ten thousand tyrants, while they give us, not indeed what we had not before received, but what we had received but were pre vented by error from retaining.”

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

• “φύσει γὰρ ἅπαντες οἱ μεγέθους ἐφιέμενοι, φεύγοντες ἀσθενείας καὶ ξηρότητος κατάγνωσιν, οὐκ οἶδ᾿ ὅπως ἐπὶ τοῦθ᾿ ὑποφέρονται, πειθόμενοι τῷ "μεγάλων ἀπολισθαίνειν ὅμως εὐγενὲς ἁμάρτημα".”

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

  Recorded in: Alternate translation (W. Rhys Roberts, 1899):

• “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