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“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
“It is no wonder that we, though distant, are present to each other and without having known each other we know each other, since we are members of a single body, we have a single head, we are inundated with a single grace, we live on a single bread, we walk on a single road, we live in the same house.”
Paulinus of Nola (354–431) said by 431 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“The same Amma Theodora also said: “A devout person was once reviled by somebody and he said to him: ‘I too could have said the same to you but the law of God closes my mouth.’” She used to say this too: “A Christian having a discussion with a Manichaean about the body spoke thus: ‘Impose the law on the body and you shall see that the body [belongs] to the Creator.’”
Theodora of Alexandria (500–490) said by 490 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever I have to speak on the subject of moral instruction and the conduct of a holy life, it is my practice first to demonstrate the power and quality of human nature.”
Pelagius (354–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A brother visited Abba Elijah who was living in hesychia at the coenobion of the cave of Abba Zabba and he said to him: “Abba, tell me a saying.” The elder said to the brother: “In the days of our fathers these three virtues were cherished: indifference to possessions, meekness, and continence. Now cupidity, gluttony, and arrogance hold monks in prey. Hold fast to which you will.”
Elias the Hermit (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mors obruit illos, non timor; invicti perstant animoque supersunt jam prope post animam.”
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) said by 489 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and the formless must needs be concealed. And those who uncovered and touched this image of life were instantaneously destroyed and shall remain forever exposed to the play of the eternal waves.”
Proclus (412–485) said by 485 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Tobias Dantzig, (1930) also see Proclus, scholium to Book X of Euclid's Elements, vol. V.
“May God inspire these men sometime to come to their senses in regard to God again, so that they may repent, however latter day, of their grave crimes, namely homicide against the brothers of the Lord, and that they free these baptized women whom they have taken, so that then they may deserve to live to God and be made whole once more, here, now and for eternity.”
Saint Patrick (385–461) said by 461 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Real progress is through internal development. Change, on the other hand, occurs when one doctrine transforms into another.”
Vincent of Lérins (500–450) said by 450 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
“tunc etiam lex, quae ab Oppio tribuno plebi lata fuerat, ne qua mulier plus quam semunciam auri haberet neue uersicolori uestimento nec uehiculo per urbem uteretur, post uiginti annos abrogata est.”
Orosius (385–418) said by 418 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20.14 (tr. I. W. Raymond, 1936)
“החירות היא זכותם של לבבות גדולים.”
אוגוסטינוס (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Facilius enim neglegentia emendari potest quam amor nasci.”
Jerome (345–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nulla consilia meliora sunt nisi illa, quae ignorauerit aduersarius, antequam facias.”
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (400–450) said by 450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must not only guard against the possession of money, but also must expel from our souls the desire for it. For we should not so much avoid the results of covetousness, as cut off by the roots all disposition towards it. For it will do no good not to possess money, if there exists in us the desire for getting it.”
John Cassian (360–435) said by 435 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abba Isaiah said: “Nothing benefits a beginner as much as an insult. A beginner who is insulted like that and tolerates it is like a tree that is watered each day.”
Isaiah the Solitary (died 492) said by 492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The person who rehearses the Creed, making the sign of the cross upon his forehead, while he says the word, that each believer may know that his flesh, if he have kept it clean from sin, will be a vessel of honour, useful to the Lord, prepared for every good work; but, if defiled by sins, that it will be a vessel of wrath destined to destruction.”
Tyrannius Rufinus (345–411) said by 411 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“האי מאן דיהיר (= מי שמתגאה) – בעל מום הוא." ~”
רב אשי (352–427) said by 427 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the same Abba Theophilus, the archbishop, was at the point of death, he said: “Blessed are you, Abba Arsenius, for you were ever mindful of this hour.”
Theophilus I of Alexandria (died 412) said by 412 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This same norm of Apostolic doctrine is firmly maintained by his (Peter's) successors, of him to whom the Lord entrusted the care of the entire flock of sheep, to whom He promised not to leave him until the end of time.”
Pope Simplicius (420–483) said by 483 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Corde natus ex parentis Ante mundi exordium A et O cognominatus, ipse fons et clausula Omnium quae sunt, fuerunt, quaeque post futura sunt. Saeculorum saeculis.”
Prudentius (348–413) said by 413 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hymnus IX: Da puer plectrum ("Of the Father's Heart Begotten"); translated by John Mason Neale, Hymnal Notes, pt. 2 (1856)