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• “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

• “All inanimate objects are different from Him and from each other and from all living objects.”

  Madhvacharya (1238–1317) said by 1317 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can.”

  William Wallace (1270–1305) first seen 1298 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Statement before the Battle of Falkirk (21 July 1298); as quoted in The Story of England (1909) by Samuel B. Harding

• “There ys no solas undyr hevene Of al that a man may nevene That shuld a man so mochë glew As a gode womman that loveth trew.”

  Robert Mannyng (1275–1338) said by 1338 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Line 1909.

• “The low-born, who have been enrolled for practising the baser arts and the meaner professions, are capable only of vices…”

  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.

• “«Mal resiste un deseo contra otro mejor».”

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

• “It covers your shame, keeps you from shivering. Grass and water are the food it asks. Who taught you, priest-man, to feed this breathing thing to your thing of stone?”

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

• “Regard opportunity. For when uproar fell upon the world, Hafiz struck at the cup and through grief took the corner of retirement.”

  Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Sería mejor gloriarse de tenerlas en la mente más a menudo».”

  Castruccio Castracani (1281–1328) said by 1328 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, "Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed." If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed. Whoso worketh in Me sineth not. Whoso confesseth Me and feareth Me, shall have eternal life. Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.”

  Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) said by 1328 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am not at all perturbed by these revolts.”

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

• “The source and ground of our distractive thoughts is the fragmented state of our memory. The memory was originally simple and one-pointed, but as a result of the fall its natural powers have been perverted: it has lost its recollectedness in God and has become compound instead of simple, diversified instead of onepointed.”

  Gregory of Sinai (1255–1346) said by 1346 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? Lovable Love, joyful Love, unthinkable Love, In Your plenitude You lie far beyond the reach of reason. Love, jocund and joyous, Divine fire, You do not stint Of your endlessly beautiful riches”

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

• “Quale asino dà in parete cotale riceve.”

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

  Recorded in: Il Laberinto d'Amore (ed. Firenze, 1826, p. 155) (tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac)

• “«Siendo Dios un bien común, y siendo Su amor ilimitado común a todos, Dios da Su gracia a todos los hombres, paganos y judíos, buenos o malos... Así Dios es una luz común y un esplendor común, que ilumina el cielo y tierra, y cada hombre, cada uno según su necesidad y valor».”

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

  Recorded in: Citado en El Adorno del Matrimonio Espiritual (1916) por Wynschenk Dom.

• “Skottes out of Berwik and of Abirdene, At the Bannok burn war ye to kene, Thare slogh ye many sakles, als it was sene And now has king Edward wroken it, I wene, It es wrokin, I wene, wele wurth the while; War yit with the Skottes, for thai er ful of gile.”

  Laurence Minot (1300–1352) first seen 1333 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 'Now for to tell yow will I turn/of the batayl of Banocburn', The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333–1352, eds. Thomas Beaumont James and John Simons (1989), p. 29

• “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)

• “Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.”

  Nicole Oresme (1320–1382) said by 1382 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Era mentiroso, beodo, ladrón e mesturero, tahúr, peleador, goloso, refertero, reñidor e adevino, suzio e agorero, nesçio e pereçoso: tal es mi escudero».Ed. Cátedra, 1992. Estudio preliminar de Alberto Blecua”

  Arcipreste de Hita (1283–1350) said by 1350 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«El que está bien sentado, no se levante».”

  Don Juan Manuel (1282–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Los libros llevaron a algunos a la sabiduría y a otros a la locura».”

  Petrarca (1304–1374) said by 1374 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Aşîk oldum şoy ay yüze nizar oldum bal ağîza Nazar kîldîm kara göze siyah olun kaşa geldim.”

  Yunus Emre (1241–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Now these people who are taken within, thumb|right|These people who are taken within, because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing”

  Henry Suso (1295–1366) said by 1366 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O Brother! Sin for the servant is great calamity. May God protect us from such things! Sin in the beginning hardens the heart, which ultimatley leads to unbelief and wretchedness. Don't forget the wiles of Satan and the fate of Balāam Bāōur.”

  Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri (1263–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source