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Said in the 1100s
“有憎有愛難超世，無慾無情定脫空。”
譚處端 (1123–1185) said by 1185 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“我住长江头，君住长江尾。 日日思君不见君，共饮长江水。此水几时休？此恨何时已？只愿君心似我心，定不负相思意。”
李之儀 (1048–1117) said by 1117 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lex donum Dei est, æquitatis forma, norma justitiæ, divinæ voluntatis imago, salutis custodia, unio et consolidatio populorum, regula officiorum, exclusio et exterminatio vitiorum, violentiæ et totius injuriæ pœna.”
John of Salisbury (1110–1180) said by 1180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.”
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) said by 1179 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“βρούχους ἄντικρυς καὶ ἀκρίδας εἶπεν ἄν τις αὐτούς, τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὸν υἱόν· τὰ γὰρ κατάλοιπα Ῥομπέρτου ὁ τούτου υἱὸς Βαϊμοῦντος προσεπενείματο καὶ κατέφαγεν.”
Anna Comnena (1083–1154) said by 1154 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“精神不運，則愚。血脈不運，則病。”
陸九淵 (1139–1193) said by 1193 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“寂寞凭高念远，向南楼一声归雁。”
陳亮 (1143–1195) said by 1195 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Qui baise feme et plus n'i fait, Des qu'il sont sol a sol andui, Dont quit je qu'il remaint en lui. Feme qui se bouche abandone Le sorplus molt de legier done.”
Chrétien de Troyes (1135–1181) said by 1181 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a by-product of his attempt to solve the problem of law and order, the Plantagenet king was creating the foundation of English common law.”
Henry II of England (1133–1189) said by 1189 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“彩袖殷勤捧玉钟，当年拚却醉颜红。舞低杨柳楼心月，歌尽桃花扇底风。 从别后，忆相逢，几回魂梦与君同。今宵剩把银釭照，犹恐相逢是梦中。”
晏幾道 (1030–1110) said by 1110 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the whole, a man who denies the existence of the effects arranged according to the causes in the question of arts, or whose wisdom cannot understand it, then he has no knowledge of the art of its Maker.”
Averroes (1126–1198) said by 1198 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! thou hast snared this head though white as snow, Which oft has vowed the wine-cup to forego, And wrecked the mansion long resolve did build, And rent the vesture penitence did sew.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The property of attraction is inherent in the Earth. By this property the Earth attracts any unsupported heavy thing towards it: The thing appears to be falling [but it is in a state of being drawn to the Earth]. The ethereal expanse being equally outspread all around, where can the Earth fall? (Goladhyaya III.6)”
Bhāskara II (1114–1185) said by 1185 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My foot is on the neck of every saint”
Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166) said by 1166 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to our view a servant of God is not one who detaches himself from the world, lest he be a burden to it, and it to him; or hates life, which is one of God's bounties granted to him.”
Judah Halevi (1075–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“士生於世，使其中不自得，將何往而非病？”
蘇轍 (1039–1112) said by 1112 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love seems to be the satisfaction of a person's heart towards something, because of something: it presents itself as desire in the search, and happiness in the satisfaction of possession; it appears as a race, as far as desire is concerned, and as rest, as far as the joy of possession is concerned.”
Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bonam quippe intentionem, hoc est, rectam in se dicimus, operationem vero non quod boni aliquid in se suscipiat, sed quod ex bona intentione procedat. Unde et ab eodem homine cum in diversis temporibus idem fiat, pro diversitate tamen intentione eius operatio modo bono modo mala dicitur.”
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) said by 1142 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ethica, seu Scito Teipsum, Bk. 1; translation by D E Luscombe from Peter Abelard's Ethics (1971) p. 53
“The sum of 13 and 8 is twenty-one, which is the number of meters with 7 matras.”
Hemachandra (1088–1172) said by 1172 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tote rien se torne en déclin, Tot chiet, tot meurt, tot vait à fin: Hom muert, fer use, fust porrist, Tur font, mur chiet, rose flaistrist, Cheval trebusche, drap viésist: Tot ovre fet od mainz périst.”
Wace (1100–1175) said by 1175 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fides quaerens intellectum”
Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) first seen 1078 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Original title of the Proslogion (1078)
“You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.”
Murasaki Shikibu (970–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Arthur Waley
“Feror ego veluti sine nauta navis, ut per vias aeris vaga fertur avis, non me tenent vincula, non me tenet clavis, Quęro mihi similes, et adiungor pravis.”
Archpoet (1130–1165) said by 1165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“风老莺雏，雨肥梅子，午阴嘉树清圆。”
周邦彥 (1056–1121) said by 1121 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source