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• “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)

• “«او انسان شد تا ما خدایان شویم. [یسوع مسیح] خود را با جسمی آشکار ساخت تا ما ایده پدر نادیدنی را دریافت کنیم؛ و او بی‌شرمی انسان‌ها را تحمل کرد تا ما جاودانگی را به ارث ببریم.»”

  آتاناسیوس اسکندریه (296–373) said by 373 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Omnia tempus alit, tempus rapit: usus in arto est.”

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

• “You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.”

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

  Recorded in: (22) De Nabute, c. 12, n. 53: PL 14. 747; cf. J. R. Palanque, Saint Ambroise et l'empire romain, Paris: de Boccard (1933), 336 ff.

• “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

• “«زیانبارتر از تمام عیب‌ها، عیبی است که نزد صاحبش پوشیده باشد.»”

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

• “Illud autem erat inclemens, obruendum perenni silentio, quod arcebat docere magistros rhetoricos et grammaticos, ritus Christiani cultores.”

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

• “While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.”

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

• “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

• “In general, just as painters in working from models constantly gaze at their exemplar and thus strive to transfer the expression of the original to their own artistry, so too he who is anxious to make himself perfect in all the kinds of virtue must gaze upon the lives of the saints as upon statues, so to speak, that move and act, and must make their excellence his own by imitation.”

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

• “But in synthesis, reversing the process, we take as already done that which was last arrived at in the analysis and, by arranging in their natural order as consequences what were before antecedents, and successively connecting them one with another, we arrive finally at the construction of what was sought; and this we call synthesis.”

  Pappus of Alexandria (290–350) said by 350 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

• “Do not judge your fellow man until you have come into his situation.”

  Hillel the Younger (1000–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nunc varios cantu divom referebat amores.”

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

• “Others do not understand how to wear the divine talismans at their belt, how to observe interdictions and precepts, how to meditate on the deities within themselves, and how to guard the True One (zheny): they can merely prevent internal ailments from arising and wind and humidity from hurting them.”

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

• “He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.”

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

  Recorded in: Arabian Society In The Middle Ages, by Edward William Lane, (1883) citing Nowwájee, En-, Shems-ed-deen Moḥammad (died 1454), Ḥalbet El-Kumeyt, at footnote 167.

• “A brother asked Abba Serapion: “Tell me a saying.” The elder said: “What can I say to you? That you took the goods of widows and orphans and set them in this embrasure?”—for he saw that it was full of books.”

  Serapion of Thmuis (300–370) said by 370 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

• “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

• “He also said: “Just as fish die if they are on dry land for some time, so do monks who loiter outside their cells or waste time with worldlings release themselves from the tension of hesychia. So we should hasten back to the cell (like the fish to the sea) lest while loitering outside we forget to keep a watch on the inner self.”

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

• “Abba Hilarion from Palestine visited Abba Antony at the mountain and Abba Antony said to him: “Welcome, star of the morning, rising at dawn.” “Peace be with you, pillar of light supporting the world,” said Abba Hilarion to him.”

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