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“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 (…
“Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since the second Adam has brought up the first Adam out of the deeps of Hades... and has set forth him who was deceived as a citizen of heaven to the shame of the deceiver, the gates of Hades have been shut, and the gates of heaven have been opened, so as to offer an unimpeded entrance to those who rise there in faith.”
Gregory Thaumaturgus (213–270) said by 270 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)
“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
“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
“Salus extra ecclesiam non est.”
Cyprian (200–258) said by 258 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Will they who subdue that fierce longing for sexual pleasures which has reduced the souls of many to a weak and feeble condition, and who subdue it because they are persuaded that they cannot otherwise have communion with God, unless they ascend to Him through the exercise of temperance, appear to you to be the brothers of worms, and relatives of ants, and to bear a likeness to frogs?”
Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“« ما همچون آتش هستیم. هر کس به آن نزدیک شود ، زیان بیند؛ و آن کس از آن دور شود ، سودی نمیبیند».”
هرمز یکم (250–273) said by 273 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“「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
“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
“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)
“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
“But everything which is against nature deserves to be branded as monstrous among all men; but with us it is to be condemned also as sacrilege against God, the Lord and Creator of nature.”
Tertullian (160–240) said by 240 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We shall find another testimony in confirmation, in the fact that the best of the philosophers, having appropriated their most excellent dogmas from us, boast, as it were, of certain of the tenets which pertain to each sect being culled from other Barbarians, chiefly from the Egyptians—both other tenets, and that especially of the transmigration of the soul.”
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, 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
“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
“Perhaps the topic [of this book] will appear fairly difficult to you because it is not yet familiar knowledge and the understanding of beginners is easily confused by mistakes; but with your inspiration and my teaching it will be easy for you to master, because clear intelligence supported by good lessons is a fast route to knowledge.”
Diophantus (200–284) said by 284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Following the dedication to Dionysus as quoted by Paul Drijvers, Secondary Algebra Education (2011)
“Beatior in hoc itinere vivendi, qui paupertate se sublevat, non sub divitiarum onere suspirat.”
Marcus Minucius Felix (200–260) said by 260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«اگر پادشاه به دادگری گرایش داشته باشد، مردمش به او گرایش خواهند داشت».”
اردشیر بابکان (180–242) said by 242 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Aries is a male zodiacal sign, but Taurus female; and the rest [are denominated] according to the same analogy, some male, but others female.”
Hippolytus of Rome (170–235) said by 235 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hence, as Narcissus, by catching at the shadow, plunged himself in the stream and disappeared, so he who is captivated by beautiful bodies, and does not depart from their embrace, is precipitated, not with his body, but with his soul, into a darkness profound and repugnant to intellect (the higher soul), through which, remaining blind both here and in Hades, he associates with shadows.”
Plotinus (205–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Ennead, Book VI, as translated by Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation (1891) pp. 43-44.