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“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
“The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.”
Nicole Oresme (1320–1382) said by 1382 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)
“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
“Et quant ma maladie Garie Ne sera nullement Sans vous, douce anemie, Qui lie Estes de mon tourment, A jointes mains deprie Vo cuer, puis qu'il m'oublie, Que temprement m'ocie, Car trop langui longuement. Douce dame jolie, Pour dieu ne penses mie Que nulle ait signourie Seur moy fors vous seulement.”
Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) said by 1377 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved. Let me render my heart a slave, it may happen that I join the beloved.”
Yunus Emre (1241–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Se, então, os gregos ou outros dizem que eles não foram confiados a Pedro e seus sucessores, é necessariamente confessar que não são das ovelhas de Cristo, pois o Senhor diz, em João, que há um rebanho e um só pastor".”
Papa Bonifácio VIII (1235–1303) said by 1303 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bliss and misery are two treasures of the Lord. The key to the former is submission, while the key to the latter is sin. The one who is fortunate has been blessed from his mother's womb. Such a person is given the key to bliss. The one who is unfortunate has been born accursed. Sin is the key to misery.”
Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri (1263–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Als thai haf wryten and sayd Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd, In symple speche as I couthe, That is lightest in mannes mouthe. I mad noght for no disours, Ne for no seggers, no harpours, Bot for the luf of symple men That strange Inglis can not ken.”
Robert Mannyng (1275–1338) said by 1338 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.
“He who practises hesychasm must acquire the following five virtues, as a foundation on which to build: silence, self-control, vigilance, humility and patience.”
Gregory of Sinai (1255–1346) said by 1346 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are enraptured lover and insane, we searched the Beloved everywhere. When I smell the fragrance of His divinity, I get intoxicated in His lane.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aredig, dysgedig yw.”
Iolo Goch (1320–1398) said by 1398 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene – Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche, Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.”
William Langland (1332–1386) said by 1386 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Better a century of tyranny than one day of chaos.”
Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) said by 1328 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) said by 1359 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Da'duo begli occhi che legato m'ànno.”
Petrarch (1304–1374) said by 1374 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come la copia delle cose genera fastidio, cosl l'esser le desiderate negate moltiplica l'appetito.”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 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…
“The Hindus thronged in clusters after clusters and groups after groups and were glorified by the glory of Islam. And likewise to this day of ours, they come from far and wide, embrace Islam, and Jizyah is off from them.”
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) said by 1388 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Firoz Shah Tughluq, FuthuHât-i Firozshâhi, ed. by Shaikh Abdur Rashid, Aligarh, 1954, pp. 16-17. Quoted from Harsh Narain, (1990). Jizyah and the spread of Islam.
“In the deeps of his ground he knows and feels nothing, in soul or body, but a singular radiance with sensible well-being and all pervading savour.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.”
William Wallace (1270–1305) first seen 1297 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement before the Battle of Stirling Bridge (11 September 1297), as quoted in History of Scotland (1841) by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 121
“Near the eastern gate of the mosque lie two very big idols of copper connected together by stones. Every one who comes in and goes out of the mosque treads over them. On the site of this mosque was a budkhānā that is an idol-house. After the conquest of Delhi it was turned into a mosque.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter III (tr. Mahdi Hussain, 1976, p. 27)