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“Whoredom and bastardy are defects with regard to a female slave, but not with regard to a male ; because the object in the purchase of female slave, is cohabitation and the generation of children...”
Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1117–1197) said by 1197 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hidayah (Muslim law book), Hamilton, II, 409. (Also quoted in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Ch. 11)
“How can even the lowest mind, if he reflects at all the marvels of this earth and sky, the brilliant fashioning of plants and animals, remain blind to the fact that this wonderful world with its settled order must have a maker to design, determine and direct it?”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1056–1111) said by 1111 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tibawi, A.L. (ed. and tr.). (1965) Al-Risala al-Qudsiyya (The Jerusalem Epistle) “Al-Ghazali's Tract on Dogmatic Theology”. In: The Islamic Quarterly, 9:3–4 (1965), 3-4.
“Entities other than Brahman can be objects of such cognitions of the nature of joy only to a finite extent and for limited duration. But Brahman is such that cognizing of him is an infinite and abiding joy. It is for this reason that the shruti [scripture] says, `Brahman is bliss’ ( II.6.) Since the form of cognition as joy is determined by its object, Brahman itself is joy.”
Ramanuja (1017–1137) first seen 1017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ramanuja. Vedarthasangraha §241, as quoted by Shyam Ranganathan "Rāmānuja (c. 1017 – c. 1137 CE)," at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed May 20. 2014.
“见有人来，袜铲金钗溜，和羞走。倚门回首，却把青梅嗅。”
Li Qingzhao (1084–1155) said by 1155 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 《点绛唇》 ("Rouged Lips"), as translated by Xu Yuan Zhong in Song of the Immortals (New World Press, 1994), p. 227
“水光潋滟晴方好，山色空蒙雨亦奇。 欲把西湖比西子，淡妆浓抹总相宜。”
Su Shi (1037–1101) first seen 1073 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The West Lake, the Beauty" (《饮湖上初晴后雨》) (1073), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 200
“I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.”
Murasaki Shikibu (970–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.”
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) said by 1142 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Abelardian Doctrine Of The Atonement" (1892), published in Doctrine and Development : University Sermons (1898) by Hastings Rashdall, p. 138
“The Law refines the behavior at the door, whereas Knowledge refines the behavior inside.”
Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166) said by 1166 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Caraf trachas Lloegyr, lleudir goglet hediw, ac yn amgant y Lliw lliwas callet. Caraf am rotes rybuched met, myn y dyhaet my meith gwyrysset. Carafy theilu ae thew anhet yndi ac wrth uot y ri rwyfaw dyhet.”
Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (1150–1170) said by 1170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gorhoffedd" (The Boast), line 3; translation from Robert Gurney Bardic Heritage (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969) p. 39.
“Yisrael camped there. As one person with one heart (mind).”
Rashi (1040–1105) said by 1105 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many of the people, deserted by their leaders and fearing future want, sold their bows, took up their pilgrims’ staves, and returned to their homes as cowards.”
Fulcher of Chartres (1059–1127) said by 1127 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gesta Francorum Iherusalem peregrinantium, ch. 7, sec. 5 (tr. Martha Evelyn McGinty, 1941)
“Let him sit alone, the Scripture says; and indeed, unless he sits and rests, he will not be alone.”
Guigo II (1114–1193) said by 1193 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know what I benefitted from this world? Nothing And what I gained from the days of life? Nothing I am a candle of wisdom; but when extinguished, nothing I am the cup of Jamshid; but when broken nothing”
Khaqani (1121–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.”
Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) said by 1109 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 123.
“Ci faut le livre Maistre Wace; Qu'in velt avant fere, s'in face.”
Wace (1100–1175) said by 1175 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What miserable drones and traitors have I nurtured and promoted in my household who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric!”
Henry II of England (1133–1189) first seen 1180 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , who was present at Thomas Becket's murder and subsequently wrote the Vita S. Thomae ("Life of St. Thomas") in about 1180. Quoted by Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket (University of California Press, 1986) p. 235. See also:
“In the gallery of God's Command no statues Of believers or unbelievers can be seen: Deep in the ocean of "Other than God" lives The snake 'No' who devours belief and unbelief.”
Sanai (1080–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.”
Richard I of England (1157–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not spend your life committing sinful deeds; It is good for you to practice holy Dharma.”
Milarepa (1040–1135) said by 1135 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Estuans intrinsecus ira vehementi in amaritudine loquar meę menti: factus de materia levis elementi similes sum folio de quo ludunt venti.”
Archpoet (1130–1165) said by 1165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Earn wealth through honest and truthful work.”
Basava (1134–1196) said by 1196 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source