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• “Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

  Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) said by 1179 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Diva potens nemorum terror silvestribus ac spes! Cui licet anfractus ire per ethereos, Infernasque domos terrestria iura resolve. Et dic quas terras nos habitare velis. Dic certam sedem qua te venerabor in euum. Qua tibi virgineis templa dicabo choris.”

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

• “Families when a child is born Hope it will turn out intelligent. I, through intelligence Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope that the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he'll be happy all his days And grow into a cabinet minister.”

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

  Recorded in: On the Birth of a Son", translated by Arthur Waley in Poetry (January 1918) and revised, as "On the Birth of his Son", in 170 Chinese Poems (1918) p. 98:

• “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

• “I thought of thee, amid the thrusting of their spears, While the straight browned blades quenched their thirst in our blood— ... again and again we were on the verge of destruction; nor would God have delivered us save for some [future] duty.”

  Saladin (1138–1193) first seen 1177 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Turan-Shah, after the Battle of Montgisard (25 November 1177). Ibn al-Athir. Lane-Poole (1906) p. 156

• “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.

• “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.

• “O quanta qualia sunt illa sabbata, quae semper celebrat superna curia.”

  Peter Abelard (1079–1142) said by 1142 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sabbato ad Vesperas", line 1; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1933) p. 163

• “En cette lumière, je vois parfois, mais point souvent, une autre lumière qu'on me dit être la lumière de la vie. Je ne puis dire quand et comment je la contemple. Mais tant que je la contemple, toute tristesse et toute angoisse me quittent : je me sens comme une toute jeune fille naïve, point comme une vieille femme.”

  Hildegarde de Bingen (1098–1179) said by 1179 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Be constant in fear of Allah and his worship. Do not fear anyone else nor expect anything from any one. Save yourself - Fear Allah, fear Allah and fear Allah.”

  Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166) said by 1166 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

• “If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. Then, when I was in prison he conspired to keep me there so that he could steal my lands.”

  Richard I of England (1157–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Richard, on his betrayal by King Philip; quoted in John Gillingham, Richard I (1999), p. 319

• “ἦν γὰρ καὶ ἄλλως μὲν θαυμαζόμενος σεμνότητι, οἷς μᾶλλον ἁλίσκεται τὸ ἀγροικικὸν τοῦτο καὶ στρατιωτικὸν ἔθνος· οὐ γὰρ διορᾷ εἰς ψυχὴν οὐδ᾿ ἐνατενίζει πρὸς ἀρετήν, ἀλλὰ μέχρι τῶν τοῦ σώματος ἀρετῶν ἵσταται τόλμαν καὶ ῥώμην καὶ δρόμον καὶ μέγεθος θαυμάζον καὶ ταῦτα κρῖνον ἄξια ἁλουργίδος καὶ διαδήματος.”

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

• “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

• “There is no change in infinite (khahara) figure if something is added to or subtracted from it. It is like: there is no change in the infinite Lord Vishnu due to the dissolution or creation of abounding living beings.”

  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

• “L’ingratitude est un vent brûlant qui déssèche pour soi la source de la bonté, la rosée de la miséricorde, les fleuves de la grâce.”

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

• “Quod cum in maximo uigore floreret imperii, sedile suum in littore maris cum ascenderet statui iussit. Dixit autem mari ascendenti: "Tu mee dicionis es, et terra in qua sedeo mea est, nec fuit qui inpune meo resisteret imperio. Impero igitur tibi ne in terram meam ascendas, nec uestes uel membra dominatoris tui madefacere presumas.”

  Henry of Huntingdon (1080–1160) said by 1160 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thou must not deem it improbable that exalted divine traces should be visible in this material world, when this matter is prepared to receive them. Here are to be found the roots of faith as well as of unbelief”

  Judah Halevi (1075–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The sum of 3 and 2 is five, which is the number of meters with 4 matras.”

  Hemachandra (1088–1172) said by 1172 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. But in the name of Almighty God, I forbid you to hurt my people whether clerk or lay.”

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