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• “زرینکوب، عبدالحسین و روزبه زرینکوب. تاریخ ایران باستان (تاریخ سیاسی ساسانیان). ج. ۳. تهران: سمت، ۱۳۹۰. شابک ۹۷۸–۹۶۴-۵۳۰–۴۴۴-۵.”

  یزدگرد یکم (400–421) said by 421 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Because Satan knows that he seduced the first man through a woman and led all human beings away from the bliss of paradise thanks to the credulity of women, he continues to pursue your sex with even greater cunning.”

  Pope Leo I (390–461) said by 461 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fervent bella horrida, fervent ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis non simplex natura hominis.”

  Prudentius (348–413) said by 413 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Psychomachia, line 902; translation from C. S. Lewis The Allegory of Love (London: Oxford University Press, [1936] 1975) p. 72

• “A brother asked Abba Arsenius if he could hear a saying from him. The elder said to him: “As much as you are able, strive so that what goes on inside you be godly and you conquer your external passions.”

  Arsenius the Great (354–449) said by 449 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.”

  Theodoret (393–466) said by 466 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 263.

• “They also used to say of him that [the wages of] all the labor he expended on the harvest, he would take and bring to Scete saying: “My widows and orphans are at Scete.”

  John the Dwarf (339–405) said by 405 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The story is told that someone once asked a wise man where he could be sure to find God. The wise man told his questioner to come along where he would lead him, and together they went into the solitude of the open desert. ‘Behold’, he said, ‘where God is’. God is more promptly believed to be there, since he is more easily found there.”

  Eucherius of Lyon (380–449) said by 449 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The man without Christ is dust and shadow.”

  Paulinus of Nola (354–431) said by 431 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To be deceived is the common lot of both layman and bishop.”

  Jerome (345–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dum Hispaniae uni quidquid ubique laudatur adsurgat. Haec durissimos milites, haec experientissimos duces, haec facundissimos oratores, haec clarissimos uates parit, haec iudicum mater haec principum est. Haec Traianum illum, haec deinceps Hadrianum misit imperio; huic te debet imperium.”

  Pacatus Drepanius (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Panegyric of Theodosius" (389), as recorded in the Panegyrici Latini. Translation from C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini (1994), p. 452, original Latin a…

• “If we listen to those who like to record antiquities, we shall find them attributing this theorem to Pythagoras and saying that he sacrificed an ox on its discovery. For my part, though I marvel at those who first noted the truth of this theorem, I admire more the author of the Elements for the very lucid proof by which he made it fast.”

  Proclus (412–485) said by 485 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The fifth century mathematician Proclus quoted in (Morrow 1970: 337). Morrow, Glenn R. Proclus, A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements: Translated, with Introduction and Notes. Princeton University Press, 1…

• “For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”

  Attila (500–453) said by 453 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted by Edward Gibbon (1781), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. III, chapter 34

• “We gaze up at the same stars; the sky covers us all; the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? The heart of so great a mystery cannot be reached by following one road only.”

  Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (345–402) said by 402 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She also said: “Just as a ship cannot be built without nails, so is it impossible to be saved without humble-mindedness.”

  Syncletica of Alexandria (320–460) said by 460 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother.”

  Stobaeus (430–470) said by 470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Prayer is called a virtue, but in reality it is the mother of the virtues: for it gives birth to them through union with Christ.”

  Marcus Eremita (360–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “少无适俗韵，性本爱丘山。 误落尘网中，一去三十年。 羁鸟恋旧林，池鱼思故渊。 开荒南野际，守拙归田园。 方宅十余亩，草屋八九间。 榆柳荫后椋，桃李罗堂前。 暧暧远人村，依依墟里烟。 狗吠深巷中，鸡鸣桑树颠。 户庭无尘杂，虚室有余闲。 久在樊笼里，复得返自然。”

  Tao Yuanming (365–427) said by 427 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Arthur Waley, Translations from the Chinese (1941), p. 90

• “that sectors in equal circles are to one another as the angles on which they stand has been proved by me in my edition of the Elements...”

  Theon of Alexandria (335–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: in : C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007

• “We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.”

  John Chrysostom (349–407) said by 407 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Abba Isidore of Pelusium used to say: “A life without a word is more advantageous than a word without life; for the first, even in silence, is advantageous, while the second is a trouble-maker when it cries out, whereas if life and word run together they constitute the portrait of all philosophy.”

  Isidore of Pelusium (370–440) said by 440 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So concludes the Aithiopika, the story of Theagenes and Charikleia, the work of a Phoenician from the city of Emesa, one of the clan of Descendants of the Sun, Theodosios’s son, Heliodoros.”

  Heliodorus of Emesa (250–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Romae ergo post urbem conditam anno CCLXL suspenso ad modicum bello grauis pestilentia, quae semper ibi raras indutias aut factas intercepit aut ut fierent coegit, per uniuersam ciuitatem uiolenter incanduit, ut merito praecedente prodigio caelum ardere uisum sit, quando caput gentium tanto morborum igne flagrauit.”

  Orosius (385–418) said by 418 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 12.2 (tr. Roy J. Deferrari, 1964)