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“O Dear! Live in this world brokenhearted and miserable. When Moses asked God: "O Lord where should I search You?" The answer came: "In the heart which is broken by the hand of detiny.”
Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri (1263–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sarò qual fui, vivrò com'io son visso.”
Petrarch (1304–1374) said by 1374 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ni rydd farn eithr ar arnawdd, Ni châr yn ei gyfar gawdd. Ni ddeily rhyfel, ni ddilyn, Ni threisia am ei dda ddyn. Ni bydd ry gadarn arnam, Ni yrr hawl gymedrawl gam.”
Iolo Goch (1320–1398) said by 1398 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The devastating raid of South India by Malik Kafur is best summed up in R C Majumdar’s words who characterizes it as being more “spectacular than effective…was par excellence as a predatory raid”.”
Malik Kafur (1250–1316) said by 1316 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How can someone have the freedom to choose and the power to act freely, unless he were able to be evil, should he so wish?”
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) said by 1359 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…
“There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how, when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.”
John Wycliffe (1320–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Latin statement in De Quattuor Sectis Novellis, as translated in Typical English Churchmen (1909) by John Neville Figgis, p. 16
“[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
“Socrates is our friend, and Plato is our friend; but the truth is even more our friend.”
Guy de Chauliac (1300–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inventarium sive chirurgia magna (1480), ch. 1, as quoted in Charles Scott Sherrington, Man On His Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1940), p. 63
“And thy traveyle shalt thou sone ende, For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende.”
Robert Mannyng (1275–1338) said by 1338 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There, where I was on foot with my knights, the king came, wounded, with all his battle, and with great sound and noise of trumpets and nakirs, and halted on a raised way; but never was so goodly a man at arms seen, for he topped all his people from the shoulders upward, and had a golden helm on his head, and a German sword in his hand.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 65 (Michelet 1882, p. 301)
“When he had finished killing unbelievers, no rival to him remained in Hindustan.”
Alauddin Khalji (1266–1316) said by 1316 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Isami, Futuh al-Salfain, as quoted in Peter Hardy - Historians of medieval India_ studies in Indo-Muslim historical writing. (1960) p 108
Also quoted by: Abdul Malik Isami
“Ihesu, for thi woundes five, in Ingland help us to have pese.”
Laurence Minot (1300–1352) first seen 1333 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Lithes and I sall tell yow tyll/the bataile of Halidon Hyll', The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333–1352, eds. Thomas Beaumont James and John Simons (1989), p. 29
“[Sayyid Ali Hamdani built his khanqah on the site of] ‘a small temple which was demolished... the credit of wiping out the vestiges of infidelity and heresy from the mirror of the conscience of the dwellers of these lands [goes to Sayyid Muhammad].”
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Baharistan-i-shahi. Pundit KN (1991) A Chronicle of Medieval Kashmir, (Translation), Firma KLM Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, p. 35-7 , as quoted in Khan, M. A. (2011). Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and …
“You are captive of your lower-self (ego); you nullify it and break the snare so that you arrive at your real nest.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In God the spiritual faculties Come to their desired end, Lose all sense of self and self-consciousness, And are swept into infinity. The soul, made new again, Marveling to find itself In that immensity, drowns. How this comes about it does not know.”
Jacopone da Todi (1230–1307) said by 1307 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Se egli fu lieto assai, la letizia della giovane non fu minore.”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 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
“Betere is liste þene ufel strenðe. for mid liste me mai ihalden þat strengðe ne mai iwalden.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter XIII (tr. Samuel Lee, 2010, p. 97)
“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
“Partitur autem totale opus ad honorem Sanctæ Trinitatis in tres libros. Nam sicut infirmanti corpori . . . . tria impertiri curamus: primo, syrupum ad præviam dispositionem; . . . . secundo, congruam medicinam quæ morbum expellat; . . . . tertio, ad conservandam sanitatem debitum vitæ regimen. . . . Sic conformiter continet liber primus dispositionem quasi syrupum, etc.”
Marino Sanuto the Elder (1260–1343) said by 1343 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Michelet (1882), vol. i, p. 408