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• “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

• “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

• “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.

• “「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

• “And it may not be amiss, as bearing on this point, to recall a beautiful saying in the writings of Sextus, which is known to most Christians: “The eating of animals,” says he, “is a matter of indifference; but to abstain from them is more agreeable to reason.”

  Origen (184–254) said by 254 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

• “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

• “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),

• “Humi iacent fessa laboribus viscera, sed poena non est cum Christo iacere. Squalent sine balneis membra situ et sorde deformia, sed spiritaliter intus abluitur quod foris carnaliter sordidatur.”

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

  Recorded in: Letter 76; Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and…

• “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

• “On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”

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

  Also quoted by: Tertullian

• “Leave my mother alone!”

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

  Recorded in: Last words, as reported in The Book of Ancient Bastards: 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds from Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment (2011) by Brian Thornton, p. 134; his mother was also murdered, their bodies behe…

• “For the most part, righteousness of life leads a man to poverty.”

  Gregory Thaumaturgus (213–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “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)

• “Autumn is beginning, the weather is turning chill. Crickets move in to sing under my bed. A thousand things surge into my mind And grieve my heart. A thousand tales search for words; But to whom will they be told? The morning breeze flows under my sleeves, The moonlight thins, And the cock crows, As I turn my horses' heads towards home.”

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

  Recorded in: The Autumn Is Beginning", translated by Jerome Ch'ên and Michael Bullock in Poems of Solitude (1960)

• “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

• “Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. -- falso abbreviatus: mens sana in corpore sano”

  Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:la, 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 (…

• “fiunt, non nascuntur Chritiani.”

  Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (160–240) said by 240 at the latest wikiquote:la, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam Vexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?”

  Juvenal (55–200) 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)

• “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)