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“What's Rome to me, what business have I there? I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear? Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes, Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since we have Christ as our Advocate with the Father for our sins, when we pray on account of our faults, we use the very words of our Advocate.”
Cyprian (200–258) said by 258 at the latest wikiquote, 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
“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)
“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.
“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)
“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
“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.
“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
“He undertook to disparage my age when he himself had appointed his ten-year-old son.”
Elagabalus (203–222) said by 222 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the Emperor Macrinus and his declaration of his son Diadumenianus to be '"Caesar". The head of Diadumenianus was presented to Elagabalus as a trophy. As quoted in Dio's Roman History (1955), as translated b…
“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.
“Nulla iniuria est, quæ in volentem fiat.”
Ulpian (170–228) said by 228 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is One Holy Spirit, having His subsistence from God, and being made manifest by the Son, to wit to men: Image of the Son, Perfect Image of the Perfect; Life, the Cause of the living; Holy Fount; Sanctity, the Supplier, or Leader, of Sanctification; in whom is manifested God the Father, who is above all and in all, and God the Son, who is through all.”
Gregory Thaumaturgus (213–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis christianorum.”
Tertullian (160–240) said by 240 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wherefore also Luke, commencing the genealogy with the Lord, carried it back to Adam, indicating that it was He who regenerated them into the Gospel of life, and not they Him. And thus also it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith.”
Irenaeus (130–202) said by 202 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“οὐκ ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ τὸ εὖ κείμενον εἶναι, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ μέγα.”
Athenaeus (170–223) said by 223 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
“「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
“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)
“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
“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