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Said in the 1100s

• “Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit.”

  Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) said by 1109 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Proslogion, ch. 2; Gregory Schufreider Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1994) pp. 324-5.

• “N'ont terre de Seingnor ki ne se pot aidier.”

  Wace (1100–1175) said by 1175 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “清夜无尘，月色如银 。 酒斟时须满十分。 浮名浮利，虚苦劳神。 叹隙中驹， 石中火， 梦中身。 虽抱文章，开口谁亲？ 且陶陶乐尽天真。 几时归去，作个闲人， 对一张琴， 一壶酒， 一溪云。”

  Su Shi (1037–1101) said by 1101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Random Thoughts, to the Tune of Shinghsiangtse" (《行香子·述怀》), in Lin Yutang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition: Selected Poems and Prose of Su Tungpo, trans. Lin Yutang (Taipei: Cheng Chung Book, 2008), p. 145

• “This is a victory opening the gates of men’s hearts.”

  Saladin (1138–1193) first seen 1174 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to al-‘Adil, after the Crusaders abandoned their position near Hama and drew back to Ḥiṣn al-Akrād (1174). Abū Shāma, ed. Aḥmad and Ziyāda, vol. 1 (1958) p. 614. Lyons and Jackson (1982) ch. 6, p. 89

• “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

• “I restore to you the law of King Edward together with such emendations to it as my father made with the counsel of his barons.”

  Henry I of England (1068–1135) first seen 1042 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Coronation Charter (5 August 1100), quoted in English Historical Documents, Vol. II. 1042–1189, eds. David C. Douglas and George W. Greenaway (1953), p. 402

• “Keueisy vun dunn diwyrnawd; keueisy dwy, handid mwy eu molawd; keueisy deir a pheddir a phawd; keueisy bymp o rei gwymp eu gwyngnawd; keueisy chwech heb odech pechawd; gwen glaer uch gwengaer yt ym daerhawd; keueisy sseith ac ef gweith gordygnawd; keueisy wyth yn hal pwyth peth or wawd yr geint; ys da deint rac tauaed.”

  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 75; translation from Robert Gurney Bardic Heritage (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969) p. 41.

• “In hec verba cum fletu et singultu prupit. "O irrevocabilia seria fatorum quae solito cursu fixum iter tenditis cur unquam me ad instabilem felicitatem promovere volvistis cum maior pena sit ipsam amissam recolere quam sequentis infelicitatis presentia urgeri.”

  Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100–1155) said by 1155 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ay, 'tis thus. Evil us hath in bond; By Thy grace guilt efface and respond "Forgiven!”

  Yom Tov of Joigny (died 1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Though the snow-drifts of Yoshino were heaped across his path, doubt not that whither his heart is set, his footsteps shall tread out their way.”

  Murasaki Shikibu (970–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Arthur Waley

• “He who is not alone cannot be silent. And he who is not silent cannot hear you when you speak to him.”

  Guigo II (1114–1193) said by 1193 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That fatal day for England, the sad destruction of our dear country [dulcis patrie].”

  William of Malmesbury (1095–1143) first seen 1066 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On the Battle of Hastings, quoted in M. T. Clanchy, England and Its Rulers: 1066-1272 (Blackwell, 1998), p. 24

• “Anyone who delights in praise destroys it.”

  Guigo I (1083–1136) said by 1136 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There has been no satisfaction, and I will not absolve them.”

  Thomas Becket (1119–1171) said by 1171 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ich glaube um zu erkennen." - Proslogion, 1077/1078, Kapitel I:Excitatio mentis ad contemplandum deum, vorletzter Satz, www.hs-augsburg.de, siehe auch Wikipedia: Credo ut intelligam.”

  Anselm von Canterbury (1033–1109) said by 1109 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As the one-hundredth part of the circumference of a circle is (scarcely different from) a plane, and as the Earth is an excessively large body, and a man exceedingly small (in comparison), the whole visible portion of the Earth consequently appears to a man on its surface to be perfectly plane.”

  Bhāskara II (1114–1185) said by 1185 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189

• “What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity”

  Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Der Weise verbirgt seine törichten Gedanken und setzt dafür, wenn er es vermag, das Gute ins Werk." - Yvain”

  Chrétien de Troyes (1135–1181) said by 1181 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Henry's choice of these two men was a signal that the criteria for deciding who was a friend and who a foe had changed with the coronation and that from that moment on those who worked loyally for his program of centralization were to be his friends, while those who opposed the increase of monarchial power were his enemies, regardless of former affiliations.”

  Henry II of England (1133–1189) said by 1189 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

• “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

• “The Frankish duke wept bitterly to see his soldiers massacred.”

  Matthew of Edessa (1100–1144) first seen 1101 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Army of William IX at Heraclea (June 1101) Hallam (1989) p. 96