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• “I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow, And I will attain nirvāṇa," one says. Whoever grasps like this Has great grasping.”

  Nagarjuna (150–250) said by 250 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[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)

• “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

• “Probitas laudatur et alget”

  Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 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.

• “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

• “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

• “O nó da desobediência de Eva foi desatado pela obediência de Maria".”

  Santo Irineu de Lyon (130–202) said by 202 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ita corpus in sepulcro, ut arbores in hiberno: occultant virorem ariditate mentita. ... Expectandum nobis etiam corporis ver est.”

  Marcus Minucius Felix (200–260) said by 260 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 (…

• “Por causa de sua divina instituição para a propagação do homem, a semente (o sêmen) não deve ser ejaculada em vão, nem deve ser avariada, nem deve ser desperdiçada.”

  Clemente de Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A nobreza é a maior das virtudes.”

  Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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

• “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)

• “There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.”

  Tertullian (160–240) said by 240 at the latest bartlett, Public domain 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

• “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.

• “Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.”

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

  Also quoted by: Tertullian

• “Tais são os preceitos do direito: viver honestamente, não ofender ninguém, dar a cada um o que lhe pertence”

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

• “If we arrive at an equation containing on each side the same term but with different coefficients, we must take equals from equals until we get one term equal to another term. But, if there are on one or on both sides negative terms, the deficiencies must be added on both bides until all the terms on both sides are positive. Then we must take equals from equals until one term is left on each side.”

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

  Recorded in: As quoted by Thomas Little Heath, Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra (1885)

• “A gladiator or a trainer of gladiators, or a huntsman, or anyone connected with these shows ... must desist or be rejected.”

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

• “Os corpos, tendo neles nada imutável, estão naturalmente sujeitos a mudanças, dissolução e divisões infinitas; eles necessariamente precisam de um princípio que os contenha, que os ligue e fortaleça as partes: é esse princípio de unidade que chamamos de alma".”

  Amônio Sacas (175–250) said by 250 at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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