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“Hic situs est Janus, patrium qui primus ad Histrum, duxit laurigeras, ex Helicone Deas. Hunc saltem titulum, Livor, permitte sepulto, invidiae non est in monumenta locus.”
Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, we need to try impossible.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adam akay ta byun byun war — Ak layi mukhta ta ak layi na har Tsandun ti dar, arkhor ti dar Arkhor asi na barkhurdar.”
Nund Rishi (1378–1439) said by 1439 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“In all the kingdom southward From the center of the earth Where is he who understands my Zen? Should the master Kido himself appear He wouldn't be worth a worn-out cent.”
Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I your own in every humble wise have me ventured to make this little simple book which I recommend and submit to your noble and wise correction, ...”
Edward, 2nd Duke of York (1373–1415) said by 1415 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.
“In the year AH 819 (AD 1416), Ahmud Shah marched against Nagoor, on the road to which place he plundered the country, and destroyed the temples…”
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) On way to Nagaur (Rajasthan)
Also quoted by: Firishta
“... we only, left alone, have endured the fury of the war ...”
John Hunyadi (1407–1456) first seen 1456 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Pope, shortly before the Siege of Belgrade (22 July 1456). Attributed in Zoltán Bodolai, The Timeless Nation: The History, Literature, Music, Art, and Folklore of the Hungarian Nation, 2nd ed. (Sydney: Hun…
“N’est elle de tous biens garnie, Celle que j'ayme loyaument?”
Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465) said by 1465 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ancòi è nato el nostro signor bello,”
Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463) said by 1463 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The intellect is prompted by nature to comprehend the whole breadth of being. ... Under the concept of truth it knows all, and under the concept of the good it desires all.”
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) said by 1499 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Livro Da Ensinança De Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela que fez Elrey Dom Eduarte de Portugal e do Algarve e Senhor de Ceuta - Ed. critica, acompanhada de notas e dum clossario. Piel Joseph M., INCM (Imprensa Nacional - Casa de Moeda), Lisbon, 1944”
Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) said by 1438 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All those things [meaning works of art] have given me the greatest satisfaction and contentment because they are not only for the honor of God but are likewise for my own remembrance. For fifty years, I have done nothing else but earn money and spend money; and it became clear that spending money gives me greater pleasure than earning it.”
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 by Salviati; as cited in Taylor, F.H. (1948). The taste of angels, a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon. Boston: Little, Brown. pp. 65–66.
“For the more paart, youthe is rebel, Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne.”
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
“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
“Aussi tost vient à Pasques limaçon.”
Eustache Deschamps (1340–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moult se vantoit li cerfs d'estre legiers", line 10; text and translation from Brian Woledge (ed.) The Penguin Book of French Verse, 1: To the Fifteenth Century (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1961] 1968) p. 238.
“Colui che scomunica me scomunica Dio.”
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) said by 1498 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A History of the Church: The Revolt Against the Church: Aquinas to Luther, (1947, 1979, 1993), by Philip Hughes, Vol. 3, p. 493 Google books file
“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.
“Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.”
Thomas Malory (1405–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) first seen 1431 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trial records (15 March 1431)