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• “…In the year 832 he marched again to Idur; and on the sixth of Suffur, AH 832 (AD Nov. 14, 1428) carried by storm one of the principal forts in that province, wherein he built a magnificent mosque…”

  Ahmad Shah I (1389–1442) first seen 1411 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultãn Ahmad Shãh I of Gujrat (AD 1411-1443) Idar (Gujarat)

  Also quoted by: Firishta

• “C'est une dangereuse épargne D'amasser tresor de regrets.”

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

• “This art [riding] brings, besides other advantages, courage to the heart.”

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

• “Wir nehmen an, kein Stern sei unbewohnt." - De docta ignorantia, aus: Nicolaus Cusanus, philosophische und theologische Schriften, auf der Grundlage der Übersetzung von Anton Scharpff, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-86539-009-9, S. 123”

  Nikolaus von Kues (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Be thou never without something to do; be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or doing something that is useful to the community.”

  Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Der Tod: Der Lust folgt Unlust, Abscheu dem Begehren. // Das ist des Lebens Lauf und Ende. Willst du // Vor Klugheit gackern, lerne das begreifen." - "Der Ackermann aus Böhmen", 1400, nach der Übertragung von E.G. Kolbenheyer, Prag 1943, S. 53”

  Johannes von Tepl (1350–1410) said by 1410 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And what shall I say of the judgement of the Qazi, one's own wife becomes another's... Somewhere a certain Musalman catches hold of someone going on the way. He catches hold of a Brahman boy and sacrifices a calf over his forehead. He builds a mosque after breaking a temple... He treats the Hindus with contempt.”

  Vidyapati (1352–1448) said by 1448 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.”

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

• “Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!”

  Joan of Arc (1412–1431) said by 1431 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted by Jean Toutmouille during the retrial after her execution (5 March 1449), as quoted in Jeanne d'Arc, maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France (1902) by T. Douglas Murray

• “The Alcoran says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religion. Mahomet advises the same thing, according to the tradition of the Mussulman doctors: wherefore the great Temur always strove to exterminate the infidels, as much to acquire that glory, as to signalise himself by the greatness of his conquests.”

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

  Recorded in: Bk. 4, ch. 2 (tr. J. Darby, 1723)

• “Whoever resigns himself in love, Lives with greater freedom than anyone. Such a person lives without anxious care, For God cannot lose what is his own.”

  Denis the Carthusian (1402–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Denis the Carthusian, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, trans. Ide M. Ni Riain (Dublin: The Columba Press, 2013), 110.

• “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

• “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

• “He hath the sor which no man heleth, The which is cleped lack of herte.”

  John Gower (1330–1408) said by 1408 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Bien est verté que j'ay amé Et ameroie voulentiers; Mais triste cuer, ventre affamé Qui n'est rassasié au tiers M'oste des amoureux sentiers. Au fort, quelqu'ung s'en recompence, Qui est ramply sur les chantiers! Car la dance vient de la pance.”

  François Villon (1431–1463) said by 1463 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “E fu in quel tempo che io montai quassù, e dissi che io non era mandato a predicarti da uomo del mondo, né da signore alcuno, ma da colui che è signore dei signori e dalla santa Trinità.”

  Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) first seen 1498 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sermon of 18 February 1498, as quoted in Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, His Relatives and His Time, 5 vols., (1924) by Monsignor Peter de Roo, Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer, volume 3, p. 265. Basic searches …

• “And thus love is founded otherwhile upon good prouffitable and this love endureth as longe as he seeth his prouffit. And herof men saye a comyn proverbe in England that love lasteth as longe as the money endureth and whan the money faylleth than there is no love.”

  William Caxton (1422–1492) first seen 1474 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Bk. III (1474)

• “A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”

  John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Joseph Ritson Bibliographia Poetica (1802) p. 87.

• “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

• “[In that vision] nothing is seen other than Thyself, [for Thou] art Thyself the object of Thyself (for Thou seest, and art That which is seen, and art the sight as well)”

  Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Please understand that I have allowed my children to be slaughtered in the name of Christian peace, so that I and my country can continue to serve the Holy Roman Empire as vassals. (missive to the elders of Brașov, 1443)”

  Vlad II Dracul (1395–1447) said by 1447 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “…The Rãjã of Îdar ran away to the mountains and on the fourth day the Sultãn started from Morãsã and halted near Îdar. He ordered that the houses and temples of Îdar should be destroyed in such a way that no trace of them should remain.”

  Muzaffar Shah I (died 1411) said by 1411 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultãn Muzaffar Shãh II of Gujarat (AD 1511-1526) Idar (Gujarat) Mir‘ãt-i-Sikandarî in S.A.A. Rizvi in Uttara Taimûr Kãlîna Bhãrata, Aligarh, 1959, Vol. II, p. 350

• “From the world of passions returning to the world of passions: There is a moment's pause. If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”

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

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Essence of Zen : Zen Buddhism for Every Day and Every Moment (2002) by Mark Levon Byrne, p. 28.