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• “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

• “Take care never to speak what you have not weighed and pondered beforehand; nor interject your own words on the spur of the moment and in the midst of another’s; for you must listen and converse in turn, with set times for speech and for silence.”

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

• “Let none escape utter destruction At our hands. Yea, whatso is found in the womb of the mother, Child unborn though it be, let it not escape utter destruction!”

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

• “Gloria enim Dei vivens homo, vita autem hominis visio Dei.”

  Irenaeus (130–202) said by 202 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.”

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

  Recorded in: Compare: "We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we'll be good."—Thomas Percy, Winifreda (1720)

• “My name is Chariton, son of Aphrodisias, and I am clerk to the attorney Athenagoras. I am going to tell you the story of a love affair that took place in Syracuse.”

  Chariton (100–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, 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)

• “It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”

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

• “Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi.”

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

• “If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God.”

  Hippolytus of Rome (170–235) said by 235 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “「彼各為其主，勿追也。」”

  Cao Cao (155–220) said by 220 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

• “Ceterum purpura uel cetera insignia dignitatum et potestatum insertae dignitati et potestatibus idololatriae ab initio dicata habent profanationis suae maculam, cum praeterea ipsis etiam idolis induantur praetextae et trabeae et laticlaui, fasces quoque et uirgae praeferantur, et merito. Nam daemonia magistratus sunt saeculi huius ; unius collegii insignia fasces et purpuras gestant.”

  Tertullian (160–240) said by 240 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

• “Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift: Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.”

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

  Recorded in: A Gentle Wind" (tr. Arthur Waley, 1922)

• “Inscribe on your heart Every inch of the time at sunset.”

  Ruan Ji (210–263) said by 263 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Inscribe on Your Heart", translated by Jerome Ch'ên and Michael Bullock in Poems of Solitude (1960)

• “[He was] delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles.”

  Elagabalus (203–222) said by 222 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Harry Benjamin in The Transsexual Phenomenon (1966)

• “Ἐπιδειξαμένου γὰρ αὐτῷ τοῦ Μυρρινουσίου Φαίδρου λόγον ὑπὸ Λυσίου τοῦ Κεφάλου συγγεγραμμένον ἐρωτικόν, οὐκ ἔφη θαυμάζειν, πλῆρες τὸ στῆθος ἔχων ὥσπερ ἀγγεῖον ἀλλοτρίων ναμάτων, ἤ που Σαπφοῦς τῆς καλῆς (οὕτω γὰρ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζων χαίρει διὰ τὴν ὥραν τῶν μελῶν, καίτοι μικρὰν οὖσαν καὶ μέλαιναν), ἢ Ἀνακρέοντος, φησίν, τοῦ σοφοῦ.”

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

  Recorded in: Dissertations, no. 8 (18), sec. 7 (ed. William H. Race, 1997; tr. Thomas Taylor, 1804). Compare: Swinburne, "On the Cliffs", Songs of the Springtides (1880). For the French "une petite brunette", see Antoine Furetière (…

• “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

• “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

• “As a square number is known to be the product of a number multiplied by itself, so every polygonal number, multiplied by one number and added to another, both of which depend upon the number of its angles, produces a square number. I shall prove this, and shall show also how from a given side to find its polygon and conversely. Some auxiliary propositions must first be proved.”

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

  Recorded in: As quoted by James Gow, A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)