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“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)
“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
“(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
“O admirable desert, how right it is for the holy monks to live or desire to live near you and within you, for you are rich and fertile in all the good things of him in whom all things are held.”
Eucherius of Lyon (380–449) said by 449 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
“Ex hoc barbaricis abacta plectris spernit senipedem stilum Thalia, ex quo septipedes videt patronos.”
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) said by 489 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unless a man has despised worldly things, he shall not receive those which are divine.”
Pelagius (354–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She also said: “Just as it is not possible to be at once both plant and seed, so is it impossible for us to produce heavenly fruit with earthly glory lying all around us.”
Syncletica of Alexandria (320–460) said by 460 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.”
Jerome (345–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is inevitable that the mind which does not have a place to turn to or any stable base will undergo change from hour to hour and from minute to minute due to the variety of its distractions, and by the things that come to it from outside it will be continually transformed into whatever occurs to it at any given moment.”
John Cassian (360–435) said by 435 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
“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
“Love humility, and it will protect you from your sins.”
Isaiah the Solitary (died 492) said by 492 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
“Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.”
John Chrysostom (349–407) said by 407 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, at the beginning, created two human beings, from whom the whole multitude of the human race has descended; and thus it is not the equity of nature, but the ambition of evil desire, which has given rise to worldly nobility.”
Sulpicius Severus (360–420) said by 420 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why make excuses close to the truth, especially when now I am presuming to try to grasp in my old age what I did not gain in my youth because my sins prevented me from making what I had read my own? But who will believe me, even though I should say it again? A young man, almost a beardless boy, I was taken captive before I knew what I should desire and what I should shun.”
Saint Patrick (385–461) said by 461 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cristo, como vês, edificou a sua Igreja não sobre um homem mas sobre a confissão de Pedro. Qual é a confissão de Pedro? "Tu és o Cristo, o Filho do Deus vivo". Aqui está a pedra para ti, aqui está o fundamento, aqui é onde a Igreja foi edificada, a qual as portas do inferno não podem conquistar.”
Agostinho de Hipona (354–430) said by 430 at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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.
“Qui terret plus ipse timet.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.”
Sallustius (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source