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“Meine Liebe und meinen Körper schenke ich Euch, macht aus mir Eure Geliebte!”
Marie de France (1101–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bleib' auf nichts, das nicht Gott ist."- Das Leben Heinrich Suso's, LIII. Kapitel, zitiert nach: Heinrich Suso's Leben und Schriften, Hrsg. Melchior Diepenbrock, Dritte Auflage, Verlag der Karl Kollmann'schen Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1854, S. 135,”
Heinrich Seuse (1295–1366) said by 1366 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am of the opinion that the main and final cause why the prince pretends to the power of altering the coinage is the profit or gain which he can get from it.”
Nicole Oresme (1320–1382) said by 1382 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.”
Robert Mannyng (1275–1338) said by 1338 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Hearne (ed.) Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (1725) vol. 1, p. 56.
“… unter dem festen Panzer des Reinheitsgefühl." - Die Göttliche Komödie, Inferno, 28, 117”
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thousands of non-Muslim women were captured during the yearly campaigns of Firoz Tughlaq.”
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) said by 1388 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Afif, Shams Siraj, Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi, Bib. Ind., Calcutta, 1890. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7
“When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (tr. Anon., 1875); quoted with a slight change in Love: A Book of Quotations (2012) p. 71
“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)
“Keine Wunde ist in mir so vernarbt, dass ich sie ganz vergessen könnte." - Gespräche über die Weltverachtung / Franciscus”
Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) said by 1374 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Es ist] besser zu genießen und zu bereuen, als zu bereuen, dass man nicht genossen hat." - Decamerone, 3. Tag, 5. Erzählung”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can dispel the clouds, drain the sea, or cure someone hopelessly ill. But to change the mind of a fool is beyond me.”
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) said by 1392 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mischievous Pelagians maintain that this sort of grace is not given freely by God but is to be obtained by preceding merits. I myself was once so foolish and empty, when I first applied myself to the study of philosophy, as to be seduced by this error.”
Thomas Bradwardine (1290–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya (fourteenth century) at many places admits that Hindus “do not embrace Islam”, and that “the heart of these people is not changed through sermons”.”
Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amir Hasan Sijzi, Fawaid-ul-Fuad (Delhi, 1865), pp. 150, 195-97. quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims, who are they (2012)
“By reason of Arthur's position as its climax as well as of the long line of other traditional heroes, events and associations, and of its breadth of treatment, simplicity, intensity, enthusiasm, accord with the supernatural, vitality of imagination, elevation and sometimes nobility and religious feeling, the poem is the nearest thing we have to a traditional racial epic.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J. S. P. Tatlock The Legendary History of Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950) p. 485.
“I saw a fullness, a brightness with which I felt myself so filled that words fail me, nor can I find anything to compare it with. I cannot tell you that I saw something with a bodily form, but he was as he is in heaven, namely, of such an indescribable beauty that I do not know how to describe it to you except as the Beauty and the All Good.”
Angela of Foligno (1248–1309) said by 1309 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your energy should be spent on fighting them, just as their energy is spent on fighting you, and on expelling them from the areas from which they have expelled you, as a law of equality in punishment.”
Ibn Kathir (1301–1373) said by 1373 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ibn Kathir, I, 527. Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged) (Riyadh: Darussalam, 2000) quoted in The critical qur’an: explained from key islamic commentaries and contemporary historical research. (2021). . Bombardier B…
“In hac ejusque potestate duos esse gladios, spiritualem videlicet et temporalem, evangelicis dictis instruimur. […] Uterque ergo est in potestate ecclesiae, spiritualis scilicet gladius et materialis. Sed is quidem pro ecclesia, ille vero ab ecclesia exercendus, ille sacerdotis, is manu regum et militum, sed ad nutum et patientiam sacerdotis.”
Pope Boniface VIII (1235–1303) said by 1303 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When he advanced from the capital of Karra, the Hindus, in alarm, descended into the earth like ants. He departed towards the garden of Behar to dye that soil with blood as red as tulip. He cleared the road to Ujjain of vile wretches, and created consternation in Bhilsan. When he effected his conquests in that country, he drew out of the river the idols which had been concealed in it.”66”
Amir Khusrow (1253–1325) first seen 1296 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Sultan ‘Alau’d-Din Khalji (AD 1296-1316) in Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh) Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own historians, Vol. III, p. 542.ff
“[What worried him most was that the Indian Muslims were appointed to] “high offices and are successful in their work… they will make people of their own kind their helpers, supporters, colleagues. They will not allow (Turkish) nobles and free-born men and men of merits to come anywhere near the affairs of the government.”
Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) said by 1357 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they. Chapter 2.
“Yunus'dur benim adım Gün geçtikçe artar odum İki cihanda maksûdum Bana seni gerek seni.”
Yunus Emre (1241–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing so fills the heart with contrition and humbles the soul as solitude embraced with self-awareness, and utter silence.”
Gregory of Sinai (1255–1346) said by 1346 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source