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• “He that will deserve the name of a Christian must be such a man as excelleth through the knowledge of Christ and His doctrine; in modesty and righteousness of mind, in constancy of life, in virtuous fortitude, and in maintaining sincere piety toward the one and the only God, who is all in all.”

  Eusebius of Caesarea (265–340) said by 340 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 103.

• “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

• “To distribute money belongs to the imperial dignity, but I offer up for the imperial dignity itself personal service to the Giver.”

  Aelia Flaccilla (356–386) said by 386 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.”

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

  Recorded in: Helen Waddell, Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943), p. 291.

• “He [Apollonius of Perga] spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought.”

  Pappus of Alexandria (290–350) said by 350 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The divine Nature feels no pain. ... although He underwent the sufferings in all the fullness of their force, which necessarily causes pain to the sufferers, yet He never so abandoned the powers of His Nature as to feel pain.”

  Hilary of Poitiers (315–367) said by 367 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

• “Having the Album of the True Forms of the Five Marchmounts in your home enables you to deflect violent assault and repulse those who wish to do you harm; they themselves will suffer the calamity they seek to visit upon you.”

  Ge Hong (284–364) said by 364 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)

• “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

• “Deliciis Veneris dives Natura laborat.”

  Reposianus (250–350) said by 350 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(To the governor who asked for her hand in marriage) Can you expect me to renounce heaven and choose instead the dust of the earth?”

  Margaret of Antioch (292–307) said by 307 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ἐν τούτῳ νίκα, [transliterated: en toutoi nika]”

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

• “Let me be as the Prophet Jonah! I was responsible for the storm, but I would sacrifice myself for the salvation of the ship. Seize me and throw me... I was not happy when I ascended the throne, and gladly would I descend it.”

  Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390) said by 390 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

• “βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστί. περὶ δὲ τὸν ἐντὸς ἄνθρωπον οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ θεωρία συνίσταται. θεωρία ἂν εἴη λοιπὸν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.”

  Basil of Caesarea (329–379) said by 379 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Furthermore, the monad produces itself and is produced from itself, since it is self-sufficient and has no power set over it and is everlasting; and it is evidently the cause of permanence, just as God is thought to be in the case of actual physical things, and to be the preserver and maintainer of natures.”

  Iamblichus (245–325) said by 325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cantet, amat quod quisque: levant et carmina curas.”

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

• “153. When you give yourself to prayer, rise above every other joy — then you will find true prayer.”

  Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A brother visited Abba Moses at Scete asking him for a saying. The elder said to him: “Go and stay in a cell; your cell will teach you everything.”

  Moses the Black (320–395) said by 395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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)