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• “Abba Macarius said to Abba Zachariah: “Tell me, what is the task of the monk?” “You are asking me, father?” he said, and Abba Macarius said: “I have full confidence in you, Zachariah my son, for there is somebody inciting me to ask you.” Abba Zachariah said to him: “In my opinion, to constrain oneself in all things: that is being the monk.”

  Zachariah the Recluse (301–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ma noi non crediamo che degli atei possano prevalere contro la Divinità.”

  Eustathius of Antioch (270–337) said by 337 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Eustazio di Antiochia (it)

• “Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.”

  Galen (129–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In: Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations, (1884), p. 223.

• “If Socrates died, then either he died when he was living, or when he was dead. But he couldn't have died when he was living, for he was not dead when he was living. But he couldn't have died when he was dead, for when he was dead he had already died. Therefore, Socrates never died.”

  Sextus Empiricus (200–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sextus Empiricus quoted in Introduction to Logic by Paul Herrick (2013)

• “If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.”

  Arius (250–336) said by 336 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Of Alexandria, the writer of the story of Leucippe and Cleitophon and other love stories in eight books. He became at last a Christian and a bishop. He wrote On the [Heavenly] Sphere, Etymologies, and Historical Miscellany, which mentions many great and admirable men. His style in all of these works is similar to [his style in] the love stories.”

  Achilles Tatius (200–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ὁ αὐτὸς ἀββᾶς Μακάριος͵ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ὢν͵ εὗ ρεν ἄνθρωπον ἔχοντα κτῆνος καὶ συλοῦντα τὰς χρείας αὐτοῦ· καὶ αὐτὸς ὡς ξένος παραστὰς τῷ συλοῦντι͵ συνεγέμου τὸ κτῆνος͵ καὶ μετὰ πολλῆς ἡσυχίας προέπεμπεν αὐτὸν͵ λέγων͵ ὅτι Οὐδὲν εἰσηνέγκαμεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον͵ δῆλον ὅτι οὐδὲ ἐξενεγκεῖν τι δυνάμεθα. Ὁ Κύριος ἔδωκεν· ὡς αὐτὸς ἠθέλη σεν͵ οὕτως καὶ ἐγένετο. Εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ἐπὶ πᾶσιν”

  Macarius of Egypt (300–391) said by 391 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Amma Sarah sent someone to say to Abba Paphnutius, 'Have you really done the work of God by letting your brother be despised?' and Abba Paphnutius said, 'Paphnutius is here with the intention of doing the work of God, and he has nothing to do with anyone else.'”

  Paphnutius the Ascetic (350–350) said by 350 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Constantius declares a curse on those who perform the magic arts and thereby “jeopardize the lives of innocent persons.”

  Constantius II (317–361) said by 361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If any Jew has purchased and circumcised a Christian slave or one of any other sect than his own, he shall not keep the circumcised slave in servitude, but the man who has suffered this outrage shall be granted the rights of liberty.”

  Constantine the Great (272–337) said by 337 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Abba John of the Thebaid said, 'First of all the monk must gain humility; for it is the first commandment of the Lord who said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."' (Matt. 5.3)”

  John of Egypt (305–394) said by 394 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Of Ephesus, historian. [He wrote] Ephesiaca [Ephesian Histories]; it is a love story in 10 books about [H]abrocomes and Anthia; also On the city of the Ephesians; and other things.”

  Xenophon of Ephesus (101–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also is twofold, by water and the spirit; the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body; the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths.”

  Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390) said by 390 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cum nos cauti vel (ut verius dixerim) timidi, nihil exaggeremus, praeter ea quae fidei testimonia neque incerta monstrarunt.”

  Ammianus Marcellinus (330–395) said by 395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Most of those who are ignorant of the proper method for entering mountains will meet with misfortune and mishap”.”

  Ge Hong (284–364) said by 364 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”

  Ambrose (339–397) said by 397 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Go forth, my soul, why do you hesitate? You have served Christ nearly eighty years; do you still fear death?”

  Hilarion (291–372) said by 372 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Abba Antony said: “A time is coming when people will rave, and when they see somebody who is not raving, they will attack him, saying: ‘You are raving [mad]’; for he is not like them.”

  Anthony the Great (251–357) said by 357 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.”

  Ausonius (310–395) said by 395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Gore Vidal, Julian (1964), p. 11.

• “Verum Scriptura omnis in duo Testamenta diuisa est. Illud quod aduentum passionemque Christi antecessit, id est lex et prophetae, Vetus dicitur; ea uero quae post resurrectionem eius scripta sunt, Nouum Testamentum nominantur. Iudaei Veteri utuntur, nos nouo.”

  Lactantius (240–320) said by 320 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source