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“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
“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
“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
“Good laws are produced by bad actions.”
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius (370–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sed adhuc supersunt aliae superstitiones, quarum secreta pandenda sunt, ... ut et in istis profanis religionibus sciatis mortes esse hominum consecratas.”
Julius Firmicus Maternus (314–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De errore profanarum religionum, ch. 6, sec. 1. Translated by Clarence A. Forbes, The Error of the Pagan Religions (Newman Press, 1970) p. 54. Latin, without translation, in J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890) vol. 1,…
“Ward: "Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.”
Poemen (340–450) said by 450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The same Abba Theophilus the archbishop once visited Scete. When the brothers were assembled they said to Abba Pambo: “Tell the pope one saying so he might reap benefit in this place.” Said the elder to them: “If he reaps no benefit from my silence, nor can he benefit from my speaking.”
Theophilus I of Alexandria (died 412) said by 412 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
“(Jesus) Victim of his priesthood and priest of his victim..”
Paulinus of Nola (354–431) said by 431 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
“Virtue cannot be separated into male and female. ... The difference is one of bodies not of souls.”
Theodoret (393–466) said by 466 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as cited in The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (2012), p. 106.
“譬喩うれば臭泥中に蓮花を生ずるが如し。但だ蓮花を採り、臭泥を取ることなかれ。”
鳩摩羅什 (344–413) said by 413 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They also used to say of him that on Saturday night when Sunday was about to dawn he used to put the sun behind him and stretch out his hands to heaven, praying until the sun shone on his face; and then he would sit down.”
Arsenius the Great (354–449) said by 449 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
“神よ、私に貞潔さと堅固さをおあたえください。ですが、いますぐにではなく。”
アウグスティヌス (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first. He has mercy upon the last and cares for the first; to the one He gives, and to the other He is gracious. He both honors the work and praises the intention.”
John Chrysostom (349–407) said by 407 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By crouching a little we are able to spring upwards; and in the same way our faculty of discrimination, after stooping to attend to the needs of the body, can once more look upwards unimpeded, separating itself from all worldly thoughts.”
Nilus of Sinai (365–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you depart from evil but fail to do good, you transgress the law, which is fulfilled not simply by abominating evil deeds but also by performing good works.”
Pelagius (354–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But after these, Pythagoras changed that philosophy, which is conversant about geometry itself, into the form of a liberal doctrine, considering its principles in a more exalted manner; and investigating its theorems immaterially and intellectually; who likewise invented a treatise of such things as cannot be explained in geometry, and discovered the constitution of the mundane figures.”
Proclus (412–485) said by 485 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“The same Abba Isaiah called one of the brothers and washed his feet, then he threw a handful of lentils in a pot and served them when it came to the boil. The brother said to him: “It is not yet cooked, abba,” and he said to him: “Is it not enough for you that it saw the bright [flame] totally? That is great consolation.”
Isaiah the Solitary (died 492) said by 492 at the latest wikiquote, 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
“Peragit tranquilla potestas quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget imperiosa quies.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source