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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
“Non umquam spem ponit amor.”
Silius Italicus (26–101) said by 101 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…
“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)
“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
“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)
“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
“Ἐπειδὴ λόγος ἐστὶν ὁ διαρθρῶν καὶ ἐξεργαζόμενος τὰ λοιπά, ἔδει δ᾿ αὐτὸν μὴ ἀδιάρθρωτον εἶναι.”
Epictetus (50–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.”
Flavius Josephus (37–100) 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
“τότε γὰρ ἡ τέχνη τέλειος ἡνίκ᾿ ἂν φύσις εἶναι δοκῇ, ἡ δ᾿ αὖ φύσις ἐπιτυχὴς ὅταν λανθάνουσαν περιέχῃ τὴν τέχνην.”
Longinus (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you have laid aside your mortality and clothed yourself with immortality, then you will see God according to your own merits.”
Theophilus of Antioch (200–183) said by 183 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
“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
“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
“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.
“Nothing in the entire world is worthy but for that day on which The Song of Songs was given to Israel”
Akiba ben Joseph (50–135) said by 135 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
“Anna – father-in-law”
Caiaphas (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hunc servare modum nostri novere libelli, // Parcere personis,dicere de vitiis.”
Marcus Valerius Martialis (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote:la, CC BY-SA 4.0 source