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• “What induces you, he [] said, "Apollonius, to dress yourself differently from everybody else, and to wear this peculiar and singular garb?" "Because," said Apollonius, "the earth which feeds me also clothes me, and I do not like to bother the poor animals.”

  Philostratus (170–250) said by 250 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For our part, may the god grant us proper detachment in depicting the story of others.”

  Longus (200–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Daphnis and Chloe, Proem, § 4 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson); cp. Paul Turner (1956): "But as for me, I hope that the god will allow me to write of other people's experiences, while retianing my own sanity.

• “Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat? Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.”

  Plotinus (205–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ἀρχόμενος γαῖάν τε καὶ εὐρέα πόντον ἀείδειν καὶ ποταμοὺς πόλιάς τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἄκριτα φῦλα, μνήσομαι Ὠκεανοῖο βαθυρρόου. ἐν γὰρ ἐκείνῳ πᾶσα χθών, ἅτε νῆσος ἀπείριτος, ἐστεφάνωται, οὐ μὲν πᾶσα διαπρὸ περίδρομος, ἀλλὰ διαμφὶς ὀξυτέρη βεβαυῖα πρὸς ἠελίοιο κελεύθους, σφενδόνῃ εἰοικυῖα· μίαν δέ ἑ καίπερ ἐοῦσαν ἄνθρωποι τρισσῇσιν ἐπ᾿ ἠπείροισι δάσαντο· πρώτην μὲν Λιβύην, μετὰ δ᾿ Εὐρώπην Ἀσίην τε.”

  Dionysius Periegetes (100–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lines 1–9, translated by J. L. Lightfoot, Description of the Known World (Oxford, 2014) p. 201

• “Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn everybody else.”

  Septimius Severus (146–211) said by 211 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am as familiar with the paths of heaven as with the streets of Nehardea, with the exception of the comet, about which I am ignorant.”

  Samuel of Nehardea (160–257) said by 257 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And if the Egyptians related fables of this kind, they are believed to convey a philosophical meaning by their enigmas and mysteries; but if Moses compose and leave behind him histories and laws for an entire nation, they are to be considered as empty fables, the language of which admits of no allegorical meaning!”

  Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “親賢臣 遠小人 此先漢所以興隆也. 親小人 遠賢臣 此後漢所以傾頹也。先帝在時 每與臣論此事 未嘗不歎息痛恨於桓靈也。”

  Zhuge Liang (181–234) said by 234 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[5 February] Memorial of Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr, who, while still young, preserved the purity of her body and the integrity of her faith during the persecution in Catania, Sicily, offering her testimony for Christ the Lord.”

  Agatha of Sicily (235–261) said by 261 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How sad it is to be a woman! Nothing on earth is held so cheap.”

  Fu Xuan (217–278) said by 278 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nulla iniuria est, quæ in volentem fiat.”

  Ulpian (170–228) said by 228 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Heretics do away with marriages; Psychics accumulate them. The former marry not even once; the latter not only once. What dost thou, Law of the Creator? Between alien eunuchs and thine own grooms, thou complainest as much of the over-obedience of thine own household as of the contempt of strangers.”

  Tertullian (160–240) said by 240 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “大丈夫當陳前死，而入牆閒，豈可得活乎？”

  Yuan Shao (154–202) said by 202 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Gesunder Menschenverstand ist rar im Glück." - Satiren VIII, 73f”

  Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”

  Cyprian (200–258) said by 258 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes.”

  Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man muss sein Auge gleichsam schliessen, man muss ein anderes dafür eintauschen und eröffnen, das alle besitzen, dessen sich aber wenige bedienen." - Enneaden, Sechstes Buch, Kap. 8”

  Plotin (205–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ὅτι δέ εἰσι φιλῳδοί, τοῦτο μὲν ἤδη καὶ τεθρύληται. ἐγὼ δὲ ᾄδοντος κύκνου οὐκ ἤκουσα, ἴσως δὲ οὐδὲ ἄλλος· πεπίστευται ⟨δ᾿⟩ οὖν ὅτι ᾄδει. καὶ λέγουσί γε αὐτὸν μάλιστα ⟨κατ᾿⟩ ἐκεῖνον εἶναι τὸν χρόνον εὐφωνότατόν τε καὶ ᾠδικώτατον, ὅταν ᾖ περὶ τὴν καταστροφὴν τοῦ βίου. διαβαίνουσι δὲ καὶ πέλαγος, καὶ πέτονται [καὶ] κατὰ θαλάσσης, καὶ αὐτοῖς οὐ κάμνει τὸ πτερόν.”

  Claudius Aelianus (died 235) said by 235 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: I.14 (tr. Thomas Stanley, 1665)

• “Honest things always love the public light; wicked deeds are secret.”

  Marcus Minucius Felix (200–260) said by 260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted by Pope Benedict XIV in the papal bull Providas Romanorum, published on 18 March 1751.

• “「寧我負人，毋人負我！」”

  Cao Cao (155–220) said by 220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “δεῖ δὲ σαφῶς εἰδότας ὡς οὐδὲν ἀνθρωπίνως ὁ σωτήρ, ἀλλὰ πάντα θείᾳ σοφίᾳ καὶ μυστικῇ διδάσκει τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ, μὴ σαρκίνως ἀκροᾶσθαι τῶν λεγομένων, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς κεκρυμμένον νοῦν μετὰ τῆς ἀξίας ζητήσεως καὶ συνέσεως ἐρευνᾶν καὶ καταμανθάνειν.”

  Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If we arrive at an equation containing on each side the same term but with different coefficients, we must take equals from equals until we get one term equal to another term. But, if there are on one or on both sides negative terms, the deficiencies must be added on both bides until all the terms on both sides are positive. Then we must take equals from equals until one term is left on each side.”

  Diophantus (200–284) said by 284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted by Thomas Little Heath, Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra (1885)