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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
“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
“Everything was done.”
Pliny the Younger (61–113) said by 113 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
“Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of the All-present.”
Akiba ben Joseph (50–135) said by 135 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
“Lucius Annaeus Florus (c. 74 – 130 AD), a Roman historian, who lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian and was also born in Africa.”
Florus (70–140) said by 140 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
“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.”
Suetonius (69–150) said by 150 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gore Vidal, On Our Own Now (London, 1976), p. 72.
“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
“Rarae fumant felicibus arae.”
Silius Italicus (26–101) said by 101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.”
Hillel the Elder (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 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
“The pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.”
Apuleius (125–170) said by 170 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…
“You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.”
Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critick with a Poet's Fire. An ardent Judge, who Zealous in his Trust, With Warmth gives Sentence, yet is always Just; Whose own Example strengthens all his Laws, And Is himself that great Sublime he draws.”
Longinus (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The earth bore thee, the sea destroyed thee, and Pluto’s seat received thee, and thence thou didst ascend to heaven. Thou didst not perish in the deep, Pamphilus, as one shipwrecked, but in order to add an ornament to the domains of all the immortals.”
Pamphilus of Alexandria (100–100) said by 100 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.
“Haec ... ornamenta sunt mea.”
Valerius Maximus (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Valerius Maximus relates an anecdote of Cornelia, which has often been cited. A Campanian lady, who was at the time on a visit to her, having displayed to Cornelia some very beautiful ornaments which she possessed, desi…
“(To the members of the Sanhedrin, who were worried that because of the uproar caused by Jesus the Romans would destroy Israe) Nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
Caiaphas (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source