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“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
“כל שאינו אומר דבר בשם אומרו עליו הכתוב אומר 'אל תגזל דל כי דל הוא.' (משלי כ"ב, כ"ד)" ~ מדרש תנחומא, במדבר כ"ז”
רבי יוחנן (180–279) said by 279 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“הרואה בן זומא בחלום, יצפה לחכמה" ~ תלמוד בבלי ברכות נ"ז ב'”
בן זומא (died 200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“אם יהיו כל חכמי ישראל בכף מאזנים ואליעזר בן הורקנוס בכף שניה מכריע את כולם" (שם)”
אליעזר בן הורקנוס (100–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“לא יתן אדם מעותיו לארנקי של צדקה אלה אם כן ממונה עליו תלמיד חכם כר' חנינא בן תרדיון." ~ רבי אליעזר בן יעקב ,תלמוד בבלי מסכת עבודה זרה י"ז ב'”
חנניא בן תרדיון (100–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“קשוט עצמך ואחר כך קשוט אחרים." ~”
ריש לקיש (200–275) said by 275 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The philosophy of the Indians, too, has been celebrated. Alexander of Macedon, having taken ten of the Indian Gymnosophists, that seemed the best and most sententious, proposed to them problems, threatening to put to death him that did not answer to the purpose; ordering one, who was the eldest of them, to decide.”
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is manifest, further, that the language used regarding the wrath of God is to be understood figuratively from what is related of His “sleep,” from which, as if awaking Him, the prophet says: “Awake, why sleepest Thou, Lord?” and again: “Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.”
Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No suffering is self-caused. Nothing causes itself. If another is not self-made, How could suffering be caused by another? If suffering were caused by each, Suffering could be caused by both. Not caused by self or by other, How could suffering be uncaused?”
Nagarjuna (150–250) said by 250 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: trans. Jay Garfield, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (1995),
“Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: VII, 11. Compare: "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). 29 Vol. ii. Chap. ix. 1763.
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death”
Irenaeus (130–202) said by 202 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
“בשמך יקראוך, ובמקומך יושיבוך, ומשלך יתנו לך. אין אדם נוגע במוכן לחברו, ואין מלכות נוגעת בחברתה אפילו כמלא נימה" (יומא לח:א-ב).”
בן עזאי (101–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“המחלל את הקדשים, והמבזה את המועדות, והמלבין פני חברו ברבים, והמפר בריתו של אברהם אבינו עליו השלום, והמגלה פנים בתורה שלא כהלכה – אף על פי שיש בידו תורה ומעשים טובים, אין לו חלק לעולם הבא.”
אלעזר המודעי (101–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am emperor. It is I who know what is best for Rome. Not you traitors. Now, let go of my horses!”
Elagabalus (203–222) said by 222 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement as he prepared to flee a camp after angry exchanges and insults with his Praetorian Guard; as quoted in The Gigantic Book of Horse Wisdom (2007) by Thomas Meagher, p. 298
“Hail, thou that are highly favoured! The Lord is with you. No longer shall the devil be against you; for where of old that adversary inflicted the wound, there now first of all does the Physician apply the salve of deliverance. Where death came forth, there has life now prepared its entrance. By a woman came the flood of our ills, and by a woman also our blessings have their spring.”
Gregory Thaumaturgus (213–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]ome men are very bad, and some very good; but yet the souls of all form but one genus: even in the worst there is something good, and in the best there is something bad. ... Just as no soul is without sin, so neither is any soul without seeds of good.”
Tertullian (160–240) said by 240 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.
“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
“[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
“הֱוֵי זָהִיר בַּתַּלְמוּד, שֶׁשִּׁגְגַת תַּלְמוּד עוֹלָה זָדוֹן." ~ משנה אבות ד', י"ג”
רבי יהודה (101–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:he, 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
“Hic non videri potest: visu clarior est; nec comprehendi: tactu purior est; nec aestimari: sensibus maior est, infinitus, immensus et soli sibi tantus, quantus est, notus.”
Marcus Minucius Felix (200–260) said by 260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source