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• “「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

• “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 (…

• “[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)

• “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

• “«Una mente sana en un cuerpo sano». [Mens sana in corpore sano].”

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

• “It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.”

  Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Tertullian

• “All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.”

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

• “Princeps legibus solutus est.”

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

• “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)

• “As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?”

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

  Recorded in: How divine scripture should be interpreted,” On First Principles, book 4, chapter 2, § 2, Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 69

• “«La grandeza de espíritu consiste en desdeñar las cosas de este mundo».”

  Plotino (205–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote:es, 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

• “Non eloquimur magna sed vivimus.”

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

• “«Las ilusiones son fantasmas que se imaginan en sueños».”

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

• “«Es lícito repeler la fuerza con la fuerza».”

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

• “«El mismo sol funde la cera y seca la arcilla».”

  Clemente de Alejandría (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote:es, 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

• “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

• “His love is distant as the stars in Heaven, Yet the sunflower bends toward the sun.”

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

  Recorded in: Woman" (tr. Arthur Waley, 1922)

• “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

• “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

• “Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me.”

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

  Recorded in: XXIV. Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 801-03.