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• “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:

• “'He who does not hold to his own will always has what he will; for externally he does not get his own way but whatever happens, no matter what it is, gives him quiet satisfaction and he discovers for himself that he has what as they he will. For he does not want things to happen as he wishes; he wants things to have happened as they happened.'”

  Dorotheus of Gaza (510–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I shared my shelter, a ninth share in Arthur's valour. I broke a hundred forts. I slew a hundred stewards. I bestowed a hundred mantles. I cut off a hundred heads. I gave to an old chief very great swords of protection.”

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

• “Bienheureuse es-tu, ma souveraine, dont la gloire est multiple ; pour toi la bienfaisance divine supprime tout besoin de combattre, car soit par un bonheur céleste tu fais fuir les adversaires de la République, soit par ta générosité naturelle tu les rallies à ton empire.”

  Amalasonte (498–535) said by 535 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed.”

  Columba (521–597) said by 597 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Adamnan, Life of Saint Columba, Ch. 28: "How an Aquatic Monster was driven off by virtue of the blessed man's prayer". Translated by William Reeves, The Historians of Scotland, vol. 6 (1874)

• “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

• “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:

• “Heinrich Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum, bilingual edition edited by Peter Hünermann, Italian version edited by Angelo Lanzoni and Giovanni Zaccherini, Edb, 2001.”

  Pope Pelagius I (505–561) said by 561 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Après avoir enduit d'un plâtre trompeur les contours de leurs visages fourbes, poussés par la colère de la déesse Héra, pleine de haine et de lourde rancune, les Titans mettent à mal [Zagreus] d'un coutelas venu du Tartare, alors qu'il observe dans un miroir l'image illusoire que celui-ci lui renvoie.”

  Nonnos de Panopolis (500–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hoc Matthaeus agens hominem generaliter implet; Marcus ut alta fremit uox per deserta leonis; Iura sacerdotii Lucas tenet ore iuuenci; More uolans aquilae uerbo petit astra Iohannes.”

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

  Recorded in: Description of the in the Carmen Paschale, as translated by Carl P. Springer, Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns, Ancient Israel and Its Literature, vol. 35 (SBL Press, 2013) p. 21

• “Sic quae permissis fluitare videtur habenis Fors patitur frenos ipsaque lege meat.”

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

• “Unless they see their nature, how can people call themselves buddhas? They're liars who deceive others into entering the realm of devils. Unless they see their nature, their preaching of the Twelve-fold Canon is nothing but the preaching of devils. Their allegiance is to Mara, not to the Buddha. Unable to distinguish white from black, how can they escape birth and death?”

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

• “Σκηνὴ πᾶς ὁ βίος, καὶ παίγνιον· ἤ μάθε παίζειν, τὴν σπουδὴν μεταθείς, ἢ φέρε τὰς ὀδύνας.”

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

  Recorded in: Robert Bland & John Herman Merivale, The Monthly Magazine, vol. xix (1805); Translations Chiefly from the Greek Anthology (1806), p. 70:

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “We have good hopes that God will grant us to restore the authority over the remaining countries which the ancient Romans possessed to the limit of both oceans and lost by subsequent neglect.”

  Justinian I (482–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.”

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

  Recorded in: As quoted in 100 Decisive Battles : From Ancient Times to the Present (2001) by Paul K. Davis, p. 93; cited to the records of Procopius, in Procopius, Vol. IV, I, pp. 15-16.

• “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 …

• “Que tout soit commun à tous, comme il est écrit, et que personne ne dise sienne ni ne s'attribue aucune chose. Si quelqu'un est pris à se complaire dans ce vice très pernicieux, il sera admonesté une première et une deuxième fois ; s'il ne s'amende pas, il subira un châtiment.”

  Benoît de Nursie (480–547) said by 547 at the latest wikiquote:fr, 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