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“Nec potest ex omnibus sibi recte propriam selegisse, qui omnes prius familiariter non agnoverit. Adde quod in una quaque familia est aliquid insigne, quod non sit ei commune cum caeteris.”
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) said by 1494 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
“Oncques feu ne fut sans fumée.”
Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465) said by 1465 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For he owre englishe gilte with his sawes, Rude and boistous firste be olde dawes, That was ful fer from al perfeccioun And but of litel reputacioun Til that he cam, and thorugh his poetrie, Gan oure tonge firste to magnifie And adourne it with his eloquence: To whom honour, laude and reuerence.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poete hault, loenge d'escuiye, En ton jardin ne seroie qu'ortie.”
Eustache Deschamps (1340–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Grant translateur, noble Geoffroy Chaucier" line 31; text and translation from Ian S. Laurie and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (eds.), David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin (trans.) Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems (London: Rou…
“«A no ser por su sobrino Jorge, sería el poeta mayor de su tiempo».”
Gómez Manrique (1412–1490) said by 1490 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“I have been chosen for the destruction of the enemies of the Faith.”
Pope Callixtus III (1379–1458) first seen 1457 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inscription on the medal commemorating the victory over the Ottomans in August 1457 at Mitylene, quoted in Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume II (1891), p. 438
“«Tenga, tenga, y venga de donde venga».”
Arcipreste de Talavera (1398–1470) said by 1470 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer.”
William Caxton (1422–1492) first seen 1430 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epilogue to Boethius De Consolacione Philosophie (1478); cited from Daniel Wakelin Humanism, Reading, and English Literature, 1430-1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) p. 15.
“What is a lond wher men ben none? What ben the men whiche are alone Withoute a kinges governance? What is a king in his ligance, Wher that ther is no lawe in londe? What is to take lawe on honde, Bot if the jugges weren trewe?”
John Gower (1330–1408) said by 1408 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“L'invidia è punita dall' invidia medesima.”
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«Río llorando y espero sin esperanza».”
François Villon (1431–1463) said by 1463 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one continues to compose poems of the sort that everyone else considers good, one must remain forever at that ordinary level. On the other hand, when one writes poems whose essence is profound and difficult, others fail to understand them, and this is frustrating.”
Shotetsu (1381–1459) said by 1459 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Conversations with Shotetsu (Shotetsu Monogatari), 1992, Translated by Robert H. Bower
“Quid tibi cum claudo, dicebam, Prisca, marito? Optimus est claudus, Prisca, fututor, ait.”
Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Considerés que c'est de pueple, quant il s'esmuet et esliève et il a puissance contre son seigneur, et par especial en Angleterre. Là n'y a-il nul remède, car c'est le plus périlleus poeuple commun qui soit au monde et le plus oultrageux et orgueilleux. Et de tous ceulx d'Angleterre Londriens sont chiefs.”
Jean Froissart (1337–1410) said by 1410 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
“«Lo que he soñado en una hora vale más que lo que tú has hecho en cuatro».”
Lorenzo de Médici (1449–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest danger against which most men have warned us is that which comes from communicating intellectual secrets to minds become subservient to the authority of an inveterate habit, for such is the power of a long-lasting observance, that most men prefer death to giving up their way of life.”
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people of Samarqand were shocked and surprised on knowing that the learned men of Islam in those lands had adopted the ways and customs of the infidels. I told them that I had seen the ulema and the Qadis of those lands with my own eyes and witnessed their (mis)deeds.”
Zain-ul-Abidin (1401–1470) said by 1470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«Todas estas riquezas son nieblas e rocío honras e orgullos aqueste loco brío; échase el homne sano e amasnesce frío, ca nuestra vida corre como agua de río».”
Pedro López de Ayala (1332–1407) said by 1407 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage. Other persons who accept the status of slave do so as a means of attaining high rank, or power, or wealth, as is the case with the Mameluke Turks in the East and with those Franks and Galicians who enter the service of the state [in Spain].”
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Bernard Lewis, Race and Color in Islam, Harper and Row, 1970, quote on page 38. The brackets are displayed by Lewis.