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• “It was seemingly from books that he learned his surgery...He may have used the knife when embalming the bodies of dead popes, but he was careful to avoid it on living patients.”

  Guy de Chauliac (1300–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Charles H. Talbot, in David C. Lindberg, Science in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 1978), p. 410

• “Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers.”

  Shi Nai'an (1290–1372) said by 1372 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.”

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

• “Ulugh Khan destroyed the great Svayambhusiva temple, whose fragments remain scattered around Warangal’s fort area. He built an enormous mosque on the site of the temple, along with a huge audience hall... By the time Ulugh Khan ascended the throne, considerable parts of the Deccan and south India had acknowledged the suzerainty of Delhi.”

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

  Recorded in: Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Episodes from Indian history. p. 249

• “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

• “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

• “Molti sono che temono l’infamia, e pochi la coscienza.”

  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. 360.

• “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

• “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

• “The king of the kingdoms of messengerdom,”

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

• “Na thar may na man fyr sa covyr Than low or rek sall it discovyr.”

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

• “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

• “Vishnu is to be perceived in His nature through the holy scriptures and only through them.”

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

• “Per fama huom s'innamora.”

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

• “Our Lady said to Bridget: "To reach the heart of God there are two paths: the first is the humility of sincere contrition, which leads and introduces man into the heart of God and into spiritual conversations. The second is the consideration of the Passion of my Son, who overcomes the insensitivity of the human heart and makes it run with joy towards the heart of God ("Book VI, 101"). (p. 60)”

  Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373) said by 1373 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)

• “Si est del riche orguillus: Ja del povre n'avra merci Pur sa pleinte ne pur sun cri; Mes se cil s'en peüst vengier, Dunc le verreit l'um suzpleier.”

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

  Recorded in: Fables, no. 10, "The Fox and the Eagle", line 18; cited from Mary Lou Martin (trans.) The Fables of Marie de France (Birmingham, Alabama: Summa, 1984) pp. 54-6. Translation from the same source, p. 55.

• “坐禪觀舉體無二，抛下萬事，休息諸緣，佛法世法不管，道情世情雙忘，無是非無善惡，何防止之有乎，此是心地無相戒也。”

  Keizan (1268–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.”

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

• “Fro Philip the Valais was sir David sent All Ingland to win fro Twede unto Trent”

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

  Recorded in: 'Sir David had of his men grete loss/with sir Edward at the Nevil cross', The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333–1352, eds. Thomas Beaumont James and John Simons (1989), p. 52

• “Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.”

  Ramon Llull (1232–1316) said by 1316 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Llull cited in: George Frederick Maclear (1863) A history of Christian missions during the Middle Ages . p. 365

• “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

• “O poor-fellow! Do you know what is renunciation and what is piety? It is that you don't go to the places of the king, nor roam about in quest of livelihood nor base yourself for sake of worldly wealth, nor sit in the company of the world lings.”

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