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• “The deacons be blameless before the face of His righteousness, as being the servants of God and Christ.”

  Polycarp (69–155) said by 155 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Τίπτε παναμέριος, Πανδιονὶ κάμμορε κούρα, μυρομένα κελαδεῖς τραυλὰ διὰ στομάτων; ἤ τοι παρθενίας πόθος ἵκετο, τάν τοι ἀπηύρα Θρηίκιος Τηρεὺς αἰνὰ βιησάμενος;”

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

• “οὐδὲν ὑπάρχει μέγα οὗ τὸ καταφρονεῖν ἐστι μέγα, οἷον πλοῦτοι τιμαὶ δόξαι τυραννίδες καὶ ὅσα δὴ ἄλλα ἔχει πολὺ τὸ ἔξωθεν προστραγῳδούμενον οὐκ ἂν τῷ γε φρονίμῳ δόξειεν ἀγαθὰ ὑπερβάλλοντα ὧν αὐτὸ τὸ περιφρονεῖν ἀγαθὸν οὐ μέτριον—θαυμάζουσι γοῦν τῶν ἐχόντων αὐτὰ μᾶλλον τοὺς δυναμένους ἔχειν καὶ διὰ μεγαλοψυχίαν ὑπερορῶντας.”

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

  Recorded in: 7.1 (tr. L. Golden, 1974)

• “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)

• “我們登上並非我們所選擇的舞台，演出並非我們所選擇的劇本。”

  愛比克泰德 (50–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”

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

  Recorded in: X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or sh…

• “All years since the creation of the world total 5,698.”

  Theophilus of Antioch (200–183) said by 183 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.

• “我所思兮在漢陽，欲往從之隴阪長，側身西望涕沾裳。”

  張衡 (78–139) said by 139 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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

• “Die to the world, repudiating the insanity that pervades it. Live to God, and by apprehending God, apprehend your own nature as a spiritual being created in his image.”

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

  Recorded in: as quoted in Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan (1996), p. 134

• “...ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges.”

  Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 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

• “当一个统治者变得不受欢迎时，他的全部行为，无论是好的还是坏的，都会变得对他不利。”

  塔西陀 (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “宇宙雖千變萬化，我們的一生卻由自我策劃。”

  馬爾庫斯·奧列里烏斯 (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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

• “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

• “Urbem neque pro maiestate imperii ornatam et inundationibus incendiisque obnoxiam excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.”

  Suetonius (69–150) said by 150 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

• “To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.”

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

• “Explorant adversa viros, perque aspera duro nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo.”

  Silius Italicus (26–101) said by 101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(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

• “Τῶν ἡδέων τὰ σπανιώτατα γινόμενα μάλιστα τέρπει.”

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