Thinkers of the Classical Antiquity
Epictetus
50 – 138
Philosophyquotes
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:
Tatian
120 – 173
Religionquotes
Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.
Apuleius
125 – 170
Literaturequotes
Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries.
Justin_Martyr
100 – 165
Philosophyquotes
Justin Martyr, also known as Justin the Philosopher, was an early Christian apologist and philosopher. The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life and provides various arguments to convince the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to abandon persecution of the Church. Justin also indicates that historical manifestations of the Logos predated Christ's incarnation, and that many historical Greek philosophers were unknowing Christians.
Pliny the Elder
20 – 79
Sciencequotes
Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, a thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
Quintilian
35 – 96
Literaturequotes
Posidonius
135 – present
Mathematicsquotes
Posidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes", was a Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was considered the most learned man of his time and, possibly, of the entire Stoic school. After a period learning Stoic philosophy from Panaetius in Athens, he spent many years in travel and scientific researches in Spain, Africa, Italy, Gaul, Liguria, Sicily and on the eastern shores of the Adriatic.
A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.
Words from October 3
"Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:"
Epictetus
50
"Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight."
Epictetus
50
"Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour."
Pliny the Elder
20
"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth."
Pliny the Elder
20
"A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant."
Posidonius
135