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• “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

• “For being transferred from the City to the Greeks, from the Greeks to the Franks, from the Franks to the Lombards, from the Lombards again to the German Franks, that empire not only became decrepit and senile through lapse of time, but also, like a once smooth pebble that has been rolled this way and that by the waters, contracted many a stain and developed many a defect.”

  Otto of Freising (1111–1158) said by 1158 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quicquid Venus imperat Labor est suavis, quę nunquam in cordibus habitat ignavis.”

  Archpoet (1130–1165) said by 1165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is a Witness in the world, but we are idle; There is a draught left in the cup, but we remain sober. Arise! Let us set to rest, with the water from our faces, The wind blowing from this deceitful heap of earth. Let's sally forth on a raid and let's destroy The marketplace where this black-faced soul thrives!”

  Sanai (1080–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers. The Franks, overwhelmed and lost in a foreign land, could see no way out of their desperate situation. Confused, they stopped and herded together like frightened animals.”

  Matthew of Edessa (1100–1144) said by 1144 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

• “گردوں بہ رنج و درد مارا کشتہ بود اگر پیوند و عمر من نہ شدے نظم جان فضائے”

  Masud Sa'd Salman (1046–1121) said by 1121 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He knows nothing about crimes, or else he weighs them in unjust balances.”

  William II of England (died 1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1882), p. 407

• “When the food is pure the Sattva element gets purified, the memory becomes unwavering.”

  Ramanuja (1017–1137) said by 1137 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ramanuja quotes from the ; Quoted in: (1913) Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures on Raja Yoga. p. 293.

• “Who ever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Allobroges, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Dacians, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks, and Armenians? If any Breton or Teuton wished to question me, I could neither understand nor answer.”

  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. 13, sec. 4 (tr. Martha Evelyn McGinty, 1941)

• “Obey your bishop! “Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17],” the teachers of the Church…. I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For “how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?”

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

  Recorded in: Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind, John R. Sommerfeldt, Newman Press (2004) , p. 67

• “Que molt est malvais qui oblie S'on li fait honte ne laidure.”

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

• “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

• “After logic we must proceed to philosophy proper. Here too we have to learn from our predecessors, just as in mathematics and law. Thus it is wrong to forbid the study of ancient philosophy. Harm from it is accidental, like harm from taking medicine, drinking water, or studying law.”

  Averroes (1126–1198) said by 1198 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I will make the land [so] desolate — This is [actually] a kindly measure for Israel, for their enemies will not find any satisfaction in their land, for it will be desolate of its inhabitants.”

  Rashi (1040–1105) said by 1105 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mas greu veiretz fin' amansa ses paor e ses doptansa, c'ades tem om vas so c'ama, falhir, per qu'eu no·m aus de parlar enardir.”

  Bernart de Ventadorn (1140–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ταῦτα δὲ διεγνωκυῖα ἐγὼ Ἄννα, [. . .] βούλομαι διὰ τῆσδέ μου τῆς γραφῆς τὰς πράξεις ἀφηγήσασθαι τοὐμοῦ πατρὸς οὐκ ἀξίας σιγῇ παραδοθῆναι οὐδὲ τῷ ῥεύματι τοῦ χρόνου παρασυρῆναι καθάπερ εἰς πέλαγος ἀμνημοσύνης.”

  Anna Comnena (1083–1154) said by 1154 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “One Flash of It within the Tavern caught.”

  Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: LXXVII (1889)

• “What is the use of spending one's time in continuous reading, turning the pages of the lives and sayings of holy men, unless we can extract nourishment from them by chewing and digesting this food so that its strength can pass into our inmost heart?”

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

• “چون تیشه مباش و جمله زی خود متراش چون رنده ز کار خویش بی بهره مباش تعلــیم ز اره گیر در امــر معاش چیزی سوی خود میکش و چیزی می پاش”

  Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami (1048–1141) said by 1141 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 rich Will make temples for Siva what shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold, Listen, O! Lord: Standing things shall fall, that which moves shall stay”

  Basava (1134–1196) said by 1196 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Set et inclitus ille rex Arturus letaliter vulneratus est qui illuc ad sananda vulnera sua in insulam Avallonis evectus, Constantino cognato suo, et filio Cadoris ducis Cornubie diadema Britannie concessit.”

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