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• “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

• “I came to this world (as a ) stranger, I am tried of this land. The time has come that I break this trap of enslavement.”

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

• “התיאבון של האדם הוא ללא גבול. הוא תמיד רוצה לחרוג מהמקום שהוא נמצא בו.”

  ג'ובאני בוקאצ'ו (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “בלא להחזיק טיפה אחת של ים, האשדות נופלים בגעש.”

  מוסו סוסקי (1275–1351) said by 1351 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.”

  John Wycliffe (1320–1385) first seen 1381 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Statement to the Duke of Lancaster (1381), as quoted in Champions of the Right (1885) by Edward Gilliat, p. 135

• “אל נא תנסה למנוע את משב הרוח, גם אם היא נושבת נגד רצונך.”

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

• “מעתה והלאה שלטה על נפשי האהבה, אשר חיש מהר נקשרתי אליה, והחלה לגבור עלי בעוצמה, אשר דמיוני הוסיף עליה, עד כי לא יכולתי כי אם למלא את כל דרישותיה. היא פקדה עלי פעמים רבות, כי אבקש לראות את דמות־הפלאים הצעירה." ~ 'החיים החדשים'”

  דנטה אליגיירי (1265–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Yurstendæi wes Baldulf cnihten alre baldest. nu he stant on hulle & Auene bi-haldeð. hu ligeð i þan stræme stelene fisces. mid sweorde bi-georede heore sund is awemmed. heore scalen wleoteð swulc gold-faye sceldes. þer fleoteð heore spiten swulc hit spæren weoren. Þis beoð seolcuðe þing isiyen to þissen londe. swulche deor an hulle swulche fisces in wælle.”

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

• “Mystic way is infested with one's ego, devils, men and Jinn, thus making it impossible to travel along it without and experienced, holy man as one's ascort. Also there are many slippery places where it is easy to fall. And one can be plagued with misfortune and dangers from behind.”

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

• “Purely philosophical assertions which do not pertain to theology should not be solemnly condemned or forbidden by anyone, because in connection with such [assertions] anyone at all ought to be free to say freely what pleases him.”

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

  Recorded in: Vol. I, Book 2, Ch. 22, as translated by John Scott (1999)

• “Shykh Nizãmu’d-Dîn Awliyã’s dargãh in Delhi continued to be and remains till today the most important centre of Islamic fundamentalism in India.”

  Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The first is that he must be well-ordered from without in all virtues and unhindered within, just as empty of all outward works as though he were not working. For if he is busy within by any work of virtue, then he is assailed by images. As long as that is going on in him, he cannot contemplate.”

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

• “Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculandum, sed ad opus inventum est totum et pars.”

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

  Recorded in: Letter to Can Grande (Epistle XIII, 40), as translated by Charles Latham in A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters (1891), Letter XI, §16, p. 199.

• “בִּי יִתְהַלֵּל כָּל מִתְהַלֵּל”

  עמנואל הרומי (1260–1336) said by 1336 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF GOD'S PRESENCE”

  Angela of Foligno (1248–1309) said by 1309 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My home was the Dome of Islam. It was the qibla for kings of the seven climes. Delhi is the twin of pure paradise, a prototype of the heavenly throne on an earthly scroll.”

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

  Recorded in: Quoted from In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau (2011), introduction xvii.

• “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

• “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…

• “I didn't believe in it for a moment but I gulped down the wine of my own voice. And then I wrestled with the darkness inside me, knocked it down, clawed at it, ripped it to shreds.”

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

• “אלוהים אינו יכול לוותר עלינו, ואין אנו יכולים לוותר עליו, כי גם אם ננסה להסב את פנינו ממנו, הוא לא יסב את פניו מאתנו.”

  מייסטר אקהרט (1260–1328) said by 1328 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sol se stessa, et nulla altra, simiglia.”

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

• “אני שואל, והם [הספרים] עונים לי, ובשבילי הם שרים ומדברים.”

  פרנצ'סקו פטרארקה (1304–1374) said by 1374 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “L’anima dell’ uomo apprendendo si nutrisce, siccome il corpo per lo cibo.”

  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.

• “God in His infinite grandeur without any quantity and absolutely indivisible, which we call immensity, is necessarily all in every extension or space or place which exists or can be imagined.”

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