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Said in the 1200s

• “A severe action ensued from dawn to mid-day, when "the army of idolatry and damnation turned its back in flight from the line of battle.... fifty thousand infidels were despatched to hell by the sword... and from the heaps of the slain, the hills and the plains became of one level.”

  Hasan Nizami (died 1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.”

  Arnaud Amalric (1160–1225) said by 1225 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”

  Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.”

  Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Love the phoenix cannot be trapped nor in heaven or earth can it be named; no one has yet discovered its address: its desert holds not a single footprint.”

  Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Coming, going, the waterbirds don't leave a trace don't follow a path.”

  Dōgen (1200–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Enlightened Heart : An Anthology of Sacred Poetry (1989) by Stephen Mitchell, p. 50

• “One's friendship with God consists in being satisfied with whatever comes from God and expresses his gratitude hundred thousand time that he was remembered by Him.”

  Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Vadis quo uis, morieris ubi debes.”

  Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Distinction 2, Chapter 19 (tr. M. R. James, 1923), quoting a 'soldier's proverb'

• “I was in my youth and in the days of my intoxication extravagance and excitement that unveiling of the angelic world and the manifestation of the wonders of power took place in my heart, spirit, conscience and intellect.”

  Ruzbihan Baqli (1128–1209) said by 1209 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened, I understood this Being and knew it more clearly than, by speech, reason, or sight, one can know anything that is knowable on earth”

  Hadewijch (1200–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Bel dous companh, tan sui en ric sojorn Qu'eu no volgra mais fos l'alba ni jorn, Car la gensor que anc nasques de maire Tenc et abras, per qu'eu non prezi gaire Lo fol gilos ni l'alba.”

  Giraut de Bornelh (1138–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reis glorios", line 31; translation from Peter Dronke The Medieval Lyric (1996) p. 176.

• “«Yo necesito pocas cosas y las pocas que necesito, las necesito poco».”

  Francisco de Asís (1182–1226) said by 1226 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Danicam uero regionem giganteo quondam cultu exercitam eximie magnitudinis saxa ueterum bustis ac specubus affixa testantur. Quod si quis ui monstruosa patratum ambigat, quorundam montium excelsa suspiciat dicatque, si callet, quis eorum uerticibus cautes tante granditatis inuexerit.”

  Saxo Grammaticus (1150–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sec. 3, par. 1 (ed. Karsten Friis-Jensen, 2015; tr. Oliver Elton, 1894)

• “Io Chiara, serva di Cristo, pianticella del nostro santo padre Francesco [...].”

  Clare of Assisi (1194–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Femina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata, Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum.”

  Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Inscription on her tomb in . Walter Lovell, "Queen Eleanor's Crosses", Archaeological Journal, vol. 49, no. 1 (1892), pp. 38–9

• “In the state of elevation, the mystic may be able to read heavenly books in languages and characters previously unknown to him and learn the heavenly names of things and beings in including his own eternal name which is different from his wordly name.”

  Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Muhammad Kasim, ascertaining that large offerings were made to the idol, and wishing to add to his resources by those means, left it uninjured, but in order to show his horror of Indian superstition, he attached a piece of cow's flesh to its neck, by which he was able to gratify his avarice and malignity at the same time.”

  Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283) said by 1283 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Multan (Punjab). Zakariya bin Muhammad (al-Kazwini): Ãsaru’l-Bilad in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. I : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. pp. 470.

• “Sultan Ghiyasu-d Balban was a man of experience in matters of government.”

  Ghiyas ud din Balban (1201–1287) said by 1287 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Para imitar el trueno y el relámpago mezcla azufre, salitre y polvo de carbón. Este mixto encerrado en un tubo o instrumento hueco se inflama al contacto del fuego, y causa una explosión igual al estallido del trueno, y al esplendor del relámpago».”

  Roger Bacon (1220–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet [powdered charcoal], and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them.”

  Roger Bacon (1220–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magise, Ch. 11, in a reference to Bacon's knowledge of making gunpowder, as quoted by Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry (1830) Vol. 1, p. 36.

• “«Justicia sin misericordia es crueldad».”

  Tomás de Aquino (1225–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A buon servente guiderdon non pere.”

  Guido Guinizzelli (1230–1276) said by 1276 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sonetto. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, p. 104).

• “He marched from it to Ranthanbhor. He first encamped at Jhayan and conquered it. He demolished temples and broke idols. He killed, captured and pillaged…”196”

  Jalal-ud-Din Khalji (1220–1296) first seen 1290 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultan Jalalu’d-Din Khalji (AD 1290-1296) Jhain (Rajasthan) Zafaru’l-Walih Bi Muzaffar Wa Ãlihi, Zafaru’l Walih Bi Muzaffar Wa Ãlihi, translated into English by M.F. Lokhand­wala, Baroda, 1970 and 1974, Vol. II, 626-8. …

• “Mir ist verspert der sælden tor dâ stên ich als ein weise vor mich hilfet niht swaz ich dar an geklopfe.”

  Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) said by 1230 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source