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• “Whan Costantyn of curteisie Holy Kirke dowed With londes and ledes, lordshipes and rentes, An aungel men herden an heigh at Rome crye, "Dos ecclesie this day hath ydronke venym, And tho that han Petres power arn apoisoned alle!”

  William Langland (1332–1386) said by 1386 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Pietro Cali, Allegory and Vision in Dante and Langland (Cork UP, 1971) p. 150

• “Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora.”

  William of Ockham (1287–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Summa Totius Logicae, i. 12, cited in "Ockham's Razor" by Paul Newall at Galilean Library (25 June 2005)

• “yi yi karu'm suy artsun yi rasini vichoarum thi mantar yihay lagamo dhahas partsun suy Parasivun tanthar.”

  Lalleshwari (1320–1392) said by 1392 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Þa þe Arður wes king hærne nu seollic þing. he wes mete-custi ælche quike monne. cniht mid þan bezste wunder ane kene. he wes þan yungen for fader þan alden for frouer. and wið þan vnwise wunder ane sturnne.”

  Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Become lover. Think both the worlds beauty of the Beloved and think own self the beauty of the Beloved.”

  Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “وصيَّة عُثمان الأوَّل لابنه أورخان:”

  عثمان الأول (1258–1326) said by 1326 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova.”

  Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To lose and to hold tightly, To love and take delight in, To gaze upon and contemplate, To possess utterly, To float in that immensity And to rest therein -- That is the work of unceasing exchange Of charity and truth.”

  Jacopone da Todi (1230–1307) said by 1307 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Storys to rede ar delatibill Suppos that thai be nocht bot fabill, Than suld storys that suthfast wer And thai war said on gud maner Have doubill plesance in heryng. The first plesance is the carpyng, And the tother the suthfastnes That schawys the thing rycht as it wes.”

  John Barbour (1316–1395) said by 1395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “L’amico lungamente si chiede, appena si trova è malagevolmente si guarda.”

  Bartholomew of San Concordio (1262–1347) said by 1347 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 332.

• “Whenever our sainted king heard that they were throwing the Greek fire at us, he rose, in his bed, and stretching out his hands towards our Lord, exclaimed with tears, "O! gracious God, (Biau Sire Diex,) preserve my people to me.”

  John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: p. 45 (Michelet 1882, p. 301)

• “What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.”

  Walter Hilton (1340–1396) said by 1396 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “يدخل عليك لص الهوى وأنت في زاوية التعبد فلا يرى منك طرداً له، فلا يزال بك حتى يخرجك من المسجد.”

  ابن قيم الجوزية (1292–1350) said by 1350 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tutes les dames de une tere Vendreit il meuz d'amer requere Quë un fol de sun pan tolir; Kar cil volt an eire ferir.”

  Marie de France (1101–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The mystery of our union with God affected by the Eucharist, is a union more intimate than the human mind can conceive.”

  Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) said by 1361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.”

  John Wycliffe (1320–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Wyclif, by Anthony Kenny, p. 90. (1985) published by Oxford University Press.

• “To die to sin is to live to God, thumb|If we would God discern, the world we must despise, his love and hate must learn, see all things with His eyes to be emptied of self and detached from all that pleases or displeases, leads to the Kingdom of God; heart and desire must close to things of earth to open to God and things eternal, if we desire to taste and see that the Lord is sweet”

  John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “People shed so many tears in all directions that five other rivers have appeared in Multan. I wanted to speak of the fire in my heart but a hundred fiery tongues flared up in my mouth.”

  Amir Khusrow (1253–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Eulogy on the death of Multan's governor Prince Muhammad, know as the Martyr Prince. Quoted from In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau (2011), introduction xix.

• “Ulugh Khan invaded Gujarat. He sacked the whole country. He pursued the Rai upto Somnath. He destroyed the temple of Somnath which was the principal place of worship for the Hindus and great Rais since ancient times. He constructed a mosque on the site and returned to Delhi.”

  Ulugh Khan (1201–1315) said by 1315 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Somnath (Gujarat) . Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi, Translated from the Hindi version by S.A.A. Rizvi included in Khalji Kalina Bharata, Aligarh, 1955, p. 223. In Goel, S.R. Hindu Temples - What Happened to them

  Also quoted by: Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi

• “E poco appresso levatasi la luna, e 'l tempo essendo chiarissimo, [egli] vegghiava.”

  Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So great was the faith of the Sultan in the Abbasid Khalifas," says he, "that he would have sent all his treasures in Delhi to Egypt, had it not been for the fear of robbers.”

  Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290–1351) said by 1351 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ziyauddin Barani, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5. Also quoted in Robert Spencer, The history of Jihad, 2018.

• “[Nasir-ud-din] then took him a prisoner to his uncle who treated him with apparent consideration and promised to release him. But when he had extorted from him his wealth, elephants and horses and all his property, he had him killed and flayed; his skin was stuffed with straw and hung up on the wall of Moutrah [Madurai] where I saw it suspended.”

  Veera Ballala III (1291–1343) said by 1343 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source