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“Não faças isso, se não é justo. Se não é verdade, não o digas".”
Marco Aurélio (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ὕψος μεγαλοφροσύνης ἀπήχημα.”
Longinus (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alternate translation (tr. G. F. Else, 1974):
“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
“A pessoa capaz de sentir prazer com o próprio passado vive duas vezes.”
Marcial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“É impossível para um homem aprender aquilo que ele acha que já sabe.”
Epiteto (50–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929), p. 335
“As esplêndidas fortunas - como os ventos impetuosos - provocam grandes naufrágios.”
Plutarco (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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…
“Má é uma opinião que não pode ser mudada.”
Aulo Gélio (130–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Approve and pursue the kind that is in accordance with nature. But avoid the kind that claims to be inspired: people like that about tell lies about Gods, and urge us to do many foolish things.”
Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Apollonius. Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece
“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.
“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
“(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
“Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.”
Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Olim nescio quid sit otium quid quies, quid denique illud iners quidem, iucundum tamen nihil agere nihil esse.”
Pliny the Younger (61–113) said by 113 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
“Perseverai em vossa concórdia e na oração comum! Convém que cada um de vós, e de modo particular os presbíteros, confortem o bispo para a honra do Pai, de Jesus Cristo e dos Apóstolos.”
Inácio de Antioquia (35–108) said by 108 at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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)
“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
“Continuemos perseverando em nossa esperança, nas primícias da justiça, que é Jesus Cristo (...). Sejamos imitadores de Sua paciência”
Policarpo de Esmirna (69–155) said by 155 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; He will cleanse the world from evil, now washing it away with water-floods, now burning it out with fiercest fire, or again expelling it by war and pestilence.”
Apuleius (125–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source