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• “A man practicing Dharma, Artha and Kama enjoys happiness both in this world and in the world to come.”

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

• “Müßiggang ist der Seele Feind." - RB, 48, 1”

  Benedikt von Nursia (480–547) said by 547 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mitis depone colla, Sigamber; adora quod incendisti, incende quod adorasti.”

  Saint Remigius (437–533) said by 533 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Advice to King Clovis (25 December 496) in Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum, bk. 2, sec. 31 (tr. Ernest Brehaut, 1916). French quoted in Norbert Guterman, A Book of French Quotations (1963), p. vi: "Adore ce que tu …

• “In warfare, it is the unexpected which is accustomed to govern the course of events.”

  Belisarius (505–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Et tacens vetustos immanium tyrannorum annos, qui in aliis longe positis regionibus vulgati sunt, it ut Porphyrius rabidus orientalis adversus ecclesiam canis dementiae suae ac vanitatis stilo hoc etiam adnecteret: "Britannia", inquiens, "fertilis provincia tyrannorum".”

  Gildas (500–570) said by 570 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.”

  Theodoric the Great (454–526) said by 526 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed in Charles Oman, Europe, 476–918, Periods of European History I (New York: Macmillan & Co, 1893) ch. 5, p. 74

• “α. Οὔνομά μοι. β. Τί δὲ τοῦτο; α. Πατρὶς δέ μοι. β. Ἐς τί δὲ τοῦτο; α. Κλεινοῦ δ᾽ εἰμὶ γένους. β. Εἰ γὰρ ἀφαυροτάτου; α. Ζήσας δ᾽ ἐνδόξως ἔλιπον βίον. β. Εἰ γὰρ ἀδόξως; α. Κεῖμαι δ᾽ ἐνθάδε νῦν. β. Τίς τίνι ταῦτα λέγεις;”

  Paul the Silentiary (520–575) said by 575 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, vii, 307, as translated by William Cowper, in W. Hayley, ed. Life, and Posthumous Writings of W. Cowper, Vol. 2 (1803), "An Epitaph"; "Vanities"; "A Nameless Grave

• “Ζωσίμη ἡ πρὶν ἐοῦσα μόνῳ τῷ σώματι δούλη καὶ τῷ σώματι νῦν εὗρεν ἐλευθερίην.”

  Damascius (450–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: J. A. Symonds Jr., "Epitaph of a Slave", Studies of the Greek Poets (1873), p. 357:

• “Qui serere ingenuum uolet agrum liberat arua prius fruticibus, falce rubos filicemque resecat, ut noua fruge grauis Ceres eat.”

  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480–524) said by 524 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I passed by the sentries on watch near her, and a people desirous of killing me; If they could conceal my murder, being unable to assail me openly.”

  Imru' al-Qais (501–544) said by 544 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Prima enim grammaticorum schola est fundamentum pulcherrimum litterarum, mater gloriosa facundiae.”

  Cassiodorus (487–583) said by 583 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When the return of the Sun took place from the middle of Aslesha, the solstice was then right. It now takes place from Punarvasu.”

  Varāhamihira (505–587) said by 587 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: as quoted in David Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings: Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization, 2000.

• “Neither gods nor men can forsee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.”

  Bodhidharma (440–540) said by 540 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We believe that it has been brought about by a special dispensation of Divine Providence, that the Frankish Princes should profess the orthodox faith; like the Roman Emperors, in order that they may help this city, whence it took its rise. Persuade them with all earnestness to keep from any friendship and alliance with our most unspeakable enemies, the Lombards.”

  Pope Pelagius II (520–590) said by 590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[Äneas] befahl allen, bereit zu sein, und, wenn er das Zeichen gebe, durch die Tore einen Durchbruch zu machen und sich sicher zu sein, zu siegen oder zu sterben." - De excidio Troiae historia, 18”

  Dares Phrygius (450–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”

  Benedict of Nursia (480–547) said by 547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15

• “Γραμματικοῦ θυγάτηρ ἔτεκεν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα παιδίον ἀρσενικόν, θηλυκόν, οὐδέτερον.”

  Palladas (400–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: W. S. Marris, "A Question of Gender", The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 655:

• “Nec dubium enim est, quod hic primus homo Adam, antequam peccaret, tipum Redemptoris domini praetulisset. Ipsi enim in passionis sopore obdormiens, de latere suo dum aquam cruoremque producit, virginem inmaculatamque eclesiam sibi exhibuit, redemptam sanguine, latice emundatam, non habentem maculam aut rugam, id est limphis ablutam propter maculam, extensam in crucem propter rugam.”

  Gregory of Tours (538–594) said by 594 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Historia Francorum, bk. 1, sec. 1 (tr. Ernest Brehaut, 1916)

• “Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus unam: profuit iniustis te dominante capi. dumque offers victis proprii consortia iuris, urbem fecisti quod prius orbis erat.”

  Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (400–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: E. F. Jacob, The Holy Roman Empire, Benn's Sixpenny Library (1928), p. 76: