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Said in the 200s
“感往昔之沦丧，伤横夭之莫救。”
张仲景 (150–219) said by 219 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“五色點注，華羽參差。鱗交綺錯，文藻陸離。”
鍾會 (225–264) said by 264 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“不假良史之辭，不託飛馳之勢。”
曹丕 (187–226) said by 226 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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
“「行止與人，務在謹之言思乃出，行詳乃動，皆用情實道理，違斯敗矣！」”
王修 (101–201) said by 201 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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
“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
“功蓋三分國，名成八陣圖。”
諸葛亮 (181–234) said by 234 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“良田無晚歲，膏澤多豐年。”
曹植 (192–232) said by 232 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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
“Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (la)
“「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
“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
“As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?”
Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How divine scripture should be interpreted,” On First Principles, book 4, chapter 2, § 2, Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 69
“以信待人，不信思信；不言待人，信斯不信”
傅玄 (217–278) said by 278 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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)
“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
“There is one river of truth, which receives tributaries from every side.”
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“登茲樓以四望兮，聊暇日以銷憂。”
王粲 (177–217) said by 217 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“知人者有驗於天，知天者必有驗於人”
華佗 (200–208) said by 208 at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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)
“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)