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• “That night they encamped in the valley. In the jungles there were many monkeys, and when night came on they entered the camp and carried off the things of the soldiers.”

  Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500–1454) said by 1454 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Raid into other parts of the Siwálik hills" (tr. H. M. Elliot and J. Dowson, 1871)

• “We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”

  Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici, Duke of Florence, in Apothegms by Francis Bacon, (1624) No. 206

• “South of Mount Sumeru Who understands my Zen? Call Master Kido over- He's not worth a cent.”

  Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: . Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 66.

• “Quin eo deventum est ut iam (proh dolor!) non existimentur sapientes nisi qui mercennarium faciunt studium sapientiae.”

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) said by 1494 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I, Pope Calixtus, vow to Almighty God and the Holy Trinity that by war, maledictions, interdicts, excommunications, and all other means in my power, I will pursue the Turks, the most cruel foes of the Christian name.”

  Pope Callixtus III (1379–1458) first seen 1418 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter written shortly after his election as Pope, quoted in Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation, Vol. II: The Council of Basel—The Papal Restoration, 1418–1464 (1882), pp. 34…

• “Era muy inclinada á facer justicia, tanto que le era imputado seguir mas la via de rigor que de la piedad; y esto facia por remediar á la gran corrupcion de crímines que falló en el Reyno quando subcedió en él.”

  Hernando del Pulgar (1436–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reyes Católicos, p. 37. Spanish reported, untranslated, in W. H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain, 3rd ed. (1841) vol. 1, ch. 6, note 9

• “Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise.”

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul.”

  Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) said by 1499 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was out of his devotion to the religion of the Turushkas, not out of antipathy towards the twice-born, that he oppressed the Brahmanas; and hence his victims did not much complain. This was what Suhabhatta told them inorder to remove the impression which his actions created that he had antipathy towards the Brahmanas.”

  Jonaraja (died 1459) said by 1459 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Many a servant un-to his lord seith, "Þat al the world spekith of him honour," Whan the contrarie of þat is sooth, in feith.”

  Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is good to go swiftly and break an enemy’s power, before he has mustered his full strength. No greater army should be taken than can be maintained on the way.”

  Timur (1336–1405) said by 1405 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed in Harold Lamb, Tamerlane (1928) p. 123

• “Li rois d'Engleterre et li sien, qui s'en venoient tout singlant, regardent et voient devers l'Escluse si grant quantité de vaissiaus que des mas ce sambloient droitement uns bos.”

  Jean Froissart (1337–1410) said by 1410 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He who does not know how to dissemble, knows not how to reign.”

  Louis XI (1423–1483) said by 1483 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Maxim of Louis XI, cited in Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 2304

• “The smylyng mouth and laughyng eyen gray, The brestis rounde and long smal armys twayne.”

  Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465) said by 1465 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Prince, je congnois tout en somme, Je congnois coulourez et blesmes, Je congnois Mort qui tout consomme, Je congnois tout, fors que moy mesmes.”

  François Villon (1431–1463) first seen 1458 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ballade des Menus Propos (Ballade of Small Talk)", line 25. (1458).

• “Sultan Ahmad Shah feasted for three days whenever the number of defenseless Hindus slain in his territories in one day reached twenty thousand.”

  Ahmad Shah I (1389–1442) said by 1442 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Will Durant and , , Book I, Our Oriental Heritage (1935) VI. THE MOSLEM CONQUEST

• “O sancta simplicitas!”

  Jan Hus (1370–1415) said by 1415 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005) by Jon R. Stone, p. 188

• “أن من عوائق الملك المذلة للقبيل والانقياد إلى سواهم.”

  ابن خلدون (1332–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Royal Book of Jousting, Horsemanship & Knightly Combat, a translation into English of King Dom Duarte of Portugal's Livro Da Ensinança De Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela (The Art of Riding on Every Saddle), The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2005, ISBN: 1-891448-34-x, ISBN: 1-891448-11-0”

  Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) said by 1438 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When Percivale and Bors saw Galahad dead they made as much sorrow as ever did two men. And if they had not been good men they might lightly have fallen in despair.”

  Thomas Malory (1405–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When Sikandar’s successor Sultan Zainul Abedin (aka Shahi Khan, r. 1417–67), another deviant Muslim ruler, permitted the converted Hindus to revert, records Sydney Owen, ‘many Hindus (i.e., Hindus converted to Islam by force) were re-admitted into the Hindu fold.’”

  Zain-ul-Abidin (1401–1470) said by 1470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quoted in M.A. Khan , Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery (2011), quoting Owen S (1987) From Mahmud Ghazni to the Disintegration of Mughal Empire, Kanishka Publishing House, New Delhi,

• “Poco ha doglia chi dolendo tace.”

  Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1495) said by 1495 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sonetti e Canzoni, Book II, as reported in T. B. Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 395

• “At the Roman Court good Fortune generally prevails, and there is but seldom room for talent or honesty; every thing is obtained through intrigue or luck, not to mention money, which seems to hold supreme sway all over the world.”

  Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) said by 1459 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source