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Said in the 1200s
“The ministering Saint, fresh from the poor of Christ.”
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy (1848), act 2, sc. 4 (Guta)
“In the administration of justice he was inflexible, showing no favour to his brethren or children, to his associates or attendants.”
Ghiyas ud din Balban (1201–1287) said by 1287 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the year 159 (AD 776) Al Mahdî sent an army by sea under ‘Abdul Malik bin Shahãbu’l Musamma’î to India… They proceeded on their way and at length disembarked at Barada. When they reached the place they laid siege to it… The town was reduced to extremities, and God prevailed over it in the same year. The people were forbidden to worship the Budd, which the Muhammadans burned.”
Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) said by 1233 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He said The Sufi is the son of the moment.”
Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248) said by 1248 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conqueror entered the city and its vicinity was freed from idols and idol-worship; and in the sanctuaries of the images of the gods, mosques were razed by the worshippers of the one God”.”
Hasan Nizami (died 1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: -- Taj-ul-Maasir: Hasan Nizami quoted in: Qutab Minar & Adjoining Monuments: Archeological Survey of India, 2002 p 31. also in Balakrishna, S., Lessons from Hindu History in 10 Episodes (2020)
“I fear not the passing of youth if the Beloved desert me not; Youth withers and loses bloom without the sustenance of Love... Saith Farid: Sugar and candy, Sweets and honey, rich milk– All these Lord, are sweet; but nothing to Try devotees so sweet as Thou.”
Baba Farid (1175–1265) said by 1265 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.”
Albertus Magnus (1200–1280) said by 1280 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Anne Jackson Fremantle (1962) The Great Ages of Western Philosophy : The Age of Belief : The Medieval Philosophers
“As Cain was a wanderer and an outcast, not to be killed by anyone but marked with the sign of fear on his forehead, so the Jews ... against whom the voice of the blood of Christ cries out ... although they are not to be killed they must always be dispersed as wanderers upon the face of the earth.”
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Migne, Patrologia, CCXV, 1291. See The Talmud Unmasked by J. B. Pranaitis, p. 89
“Nel nome del Signore. Così sia. Tra gli altri benefici che in dono dal nostro Padre di misericordia abbiamo ricevuto e ogni giorno riceviamo, per i quali dobbiamo rendere grazie di più alla sua gloria, vi è la nostra grande vocazione, per la quale tanto più gli dobbiamo gratitudine, quanto è più perfetta e più grande.”
Clare of Assisi (1194–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contemplation deepens the more we feel the working of God’s grace within our hearts, and the better we learn to encounter God in creatures outside ourselves.”
Bonaventure (1221–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Pope Francis in Laudato si' (2015), paragraph 233
“(About Saint Saint Paula of Rome}} Inspired by the virtues of Paulinus, Bishop of Antioch, and Epiphanius, who had come to Rome, she sometimes contemplated leaving her homeland.”
Jacobus de Voragine (1228–1298) said by 1298 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Si hubiera estado presente en la Creación, habría dado algunas indicaciones útiles.”
Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) said by 1284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted/paraphrased by Adam Riess in his Nobel Prize (in Physics 2011) lecture slides on Supernovae Reveal An Accelerating Universe (A Science Adventure Story).
“A justices tenir et à droitures soies loiaus et roides à tes sougiez, sans tourner à destre ne à senestre, mais adès à droit, et soustien la querelle dou povre jeusques à tant que la verités soit desclairie.”
Louis IX of France (1214–1270) said by 1270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The consideration of lines, angles and figures is of the greatest utility since it is impossible for natural philosophy to be known without them... All causes of natural effects have to be given through lines, angles and figures, for otherwise it is impossible for the reason why (propter quid) to be known in them.”
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Lineas, Anguilis et Figuris (On Lines, Angles and Figures) as quoted in Neil Lewis, "Robert Grosseteste" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007, 2013) citing Baur, Ludwig (ed.) Die Philosophischen Werke des Robert…
“They look, they see, but do not comprehend. They take no pleasure in the View, For to enjoy it one must know through the Truth of Certainty What he is seeing, through Whom, and why.”
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liebe ist ein also saelic dinc, ein also saeleclich gerinc, daz nieman ane ir lere noch tugende hat noch ere.”
Gottfried von Strassburg (1180–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That heart which, through separation, thou madest sad; From every joy that was, which thou madest bare of; From thy disposition I am aware that, suddenly and unexpectedly, The rumour may arise that thou hast broken it.”
Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Omne verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Food, clothing, and shelter are the three evil paths. To desire and make a display of clothing is karma for the path of beasts. To greedily crave food is karma for the path of famished ghosts. To set up a shelter is karma for the path of hell. Hence, if you aspire to part from the three evil paths, you must free yourself from food, clothing, and shelter.”
Ippen (1239–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was known to his countrymen as the Nightingale, but his own sweet-sounding name of Bird's-meadow (Vogelweide) suggests even more directly the pure, true, flute-like strain which he poured into Europe’s choir of voices.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) said by 1230 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Laurie Magnus A General Sketch of European Literature in the Centuries of Romance (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1918) pp. 27-28.
“O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) said by 1227 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Tarikh-i Jahangushay [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
“Der schadehafte erwarp ie spot: sælden pflihtær dem half got.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Erring, I wandered in the wilderness, In passion's grave nigh sinking, powerless; Now deeply I repent, in sore distress, That I kept not the statutes of the King!”
Ramban (1194–1270) said by 1270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source