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• “Juliana, although already married to Eulogius, the prefect of Nicomedia, refused to consummate the marriage unless her husband was first baptised. Her father then had her stripped naked and severely beaten, then had her taken to the prefect, who said to her: ‘My sweetest Juliana, why have you mocked me and rejected me in this way?’ (p. 223)”

  Jacobus de Voragine (1228–1298) said by 1298 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Lord came all the way from heaven to earth for us, so we can surely go the short distance from the castle to Eisenach for Him! ... We must not sadden God with sullen looks. Whatever we do, we must do gladly.”

  Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Schmidt-Pauli (tr. Olga Marx, 1932), p. 109

• “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

• “The chief of Anhilwãra called Bhîm, fled hastily… Yamînu-d daula again started for Somnãt, and on his march he came to several forts in which were many images serving as chamberlains or heralds of Somnãt, and accordingly he (Mahmûd) called them Shaitãn. He killed the people who were in these places, destroyed the fortifications, broke in pieces the idols and continued his march to Somnãt…”

  Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) first seen 1030 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ibn al-Athir The Complete History, Sultãn Mahmûd of Ghazni (AD 997-1030) (Rajasthan and Gujarat) Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II. pp. 469-71

• “Tighten to nothing the circle that is the world's things Then the Naked circle can grow wide, enlarging, embracing all”

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

• “Науку познаешь с помощью слов, искусство — с помощью практики, а отчужденность познается в компании.”

  Джалаледдин Руми (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”

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

  Recorded in: In: Robert Belle Burke (2002) The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2. p. 583

• “Воздержанность и распущенность проявляются не только в поступках, но и в словах.”

  Абу-ль-Фарадж бин Харун (1226–1286) said by 1286 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “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

• “As you see double if you push the eye out of its place with your finger; so prelates, through evil counsel, judge a priest to be worthy of two benefices, when he ought to be contented with one.”

  John Peckham (1227–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: De Oculo Morali quoted in Georg Herzfeld (ed.) An Old English Martyrology (1900)

• “Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, The soul within the body lies concealed, And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, O soul in soul! Myst'ry in myst'ry hid! Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!”

  Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Lucy M. J. Garnett, Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912), p. 49

• “Sultan Balban, while he was a Khan, was addicted to wine drinking.”

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

• “Sicut radix portat arborem, sic humilitas animam. Spiritus humilitatis est super mel dulcis, quo qui regitur dulcia poma facit.”

  Anthony of Padua (1195–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(Che) nessuna scienza Senz’ ammaestratura Non saglie in grande altura Per proprio sentimento.”

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

  Recorded in: Canzone. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, Vol. I, p. 83).

• “Глядя на лошадиные морды и лица людей, на безбрежный живой поток, поднятый моей волей и мчащийся в никуда по багровой закатной степи, я часто думаю: где я в этом потоке? (Эпиграф к роману «Чапаев и Пустота» В. Пелевина)”

  Чингисхан (1162–1227) said by 1227 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Qu'eu cut c'atretan grans sens Es, qui sap razo gardar, Com los motz entrebeschar.”

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

  Recorded in: A penas sai comensar", line 19; translation from Alan R. Press Anthology of Troubadour Lyric Poetry (1971) p. 129.

• “You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.”

  Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248) said by 1248 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Women and children were the prize of the warriors, and as early as the days of Qutbuddin Aibak "even a poor Muslim householder (who was also a soldier) became owner of numerous slaves.”

  Qutb al-Din Aibak (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Fakhr-i-Mudabbir, Tarikh Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah, p. 20. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4

• “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 the practice of utilizing the spoils of Hindu temples continued throughout the reign of Sultan Iletmish is proved by the Mosque of Ukha in Bayana (Uttar Pradesh), which is also on the site of a Hindu temple…”

  Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Bayana (Rajasthan) . Syed Mahmudul Hasan, Mosque Architecture of Pre-Mughal Bengal, Dacca (Bangladesh), 1979, p. 39

• “Хотя вы получили Поднебесную сидя на коне, но нельзя управлять ею, сидя на коне! (Изречение Лу Цзя, древнекитайского оратора, III—II вв. до н. э.)”

  Елюй Чуцай (1189–1244) said by 1244 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Prayer according to Shariah is service, according to Tariqa proximity, and according to Haqiqa union with God.”

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