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Said in the 1400s

• “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)

• “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)

• “«من به پوآتیه نیامده‌ام که به شما معجزه نشان دهم. مرا به اورلئان ببرید تا در آنجا نشانه‌هایی را که برای آنها فرستاده شده‌ام به شما نشان بدهم»”

  ژان دارک (1412–1431) said by 1431 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is also well known that good horses bring happiness to the heart of the riders, if they are at least reasonably skilled.”

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

• “Moche Crye and no Wull.”

  John Fortescue (1394–1479) said by 1479 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ch. 10 (ed. Fortescue-Aland, 1714); reported in Bartlett's, 10th ed. (1919), p. 7

  Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer

• “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

• “Man is the same [but] of different qualities; One is worth a pearl, another is not worth a shell. Sandal is wood, arkhor is wood, [but] Arkhor is not of any use. 1”

  Nund Rishi (1378–1439) said by 1439 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Indian Antiquary, November 1933, p. 216

• “O Venus, queene of lovës cure, Thou lif, thou lust, thou mannës hele, Behold my cause and my querele, And yif me som part of thi grace.”

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

  Recorded in: Bk. 1, line 132 (ed. G. C. Macauley, vol. 2, 1901)

• “No one, therefore, can love God too much, But on the contrary, the more fervently he loves him, The better and the holier he becomes.”

  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), 71.

• “God has not made with two hearts within him. The incomparable Majesty who has conferred the boon of existence upon thee has placed within thee but one heart, to the end that with single heart thou mayest love Him alone, and mayest turn thy back on all besides and devote thyself to Him alone, and refrain from dividing thy heart into a hundred portions, each portion devoted to a different object.”

  Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I think I should not omit to mention the place where most of the above tales were related, I might almost say, acted. That place is our Bugiale, a sort of laboratory for fibs.”

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

• “Docuit me ipsa philosophia a propria potius conscientia quam ab externis pendere iuditiis, cogitareque semper, non tam ne male audiam, quam ne quid male vel dicam ipse vel agam.”

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

• “At times I supported the sky, at times the earth; At times I turned into a dragon, at times to a snake. I wandered at will through the cycles of life and of death. All the fathers of our faith I took into my mouth. I give as I will and I take as I will. I slash the leopard with my teeth; My spirit smashes mountains.”

  Shumpo Soki (1409–1496) said by 1496 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6

• “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

• “Et scahiez que Anglois et Escoçoiz, quant ilz se treuvent en bataille ensamble, sont dures gens et de longue alainne, et point ne s'esparngnent, mais s'entendent de eulx mettre à oultranche, comment qu'il prende. Ilz ne ressamblent pas les Alemans qui font une empainte, et, quant ilz voient qu'ilz ne puellent rompre ne entrer en leurs ennemis, ilz s'en retournent tout à ung fais.”

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

• “Passionis prælo in torculari.”

  Gabriel Biel (1418–1495) said by 1495 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Off oure language he was the lodesterre.”

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

• “On ilk beugh till embrace Writtin in a bill was O Dowglass, O Dowglass Tender and trewe!”

  Richard Holland (1415–1482) first seen 1450 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Buke of the Howlat (c. 1450), Stanza xxxi. The allegorical poem of The Howlat was composed about the mid-fifteenth century, and printed by the Bannatyne Club, 1823.

• “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

• “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

• “«چه کسی هست که نداند هنگامی که زبانِ لاتین شکوفا شود، همهٔ پژوهش و مقرّرات پیشرفت می‌کنند و هنگامی که لاتین از بین برود، همهٔ آن‌ها نیز ویران می‌شوند؟ مشهورترین فیلسوفان، بهترین سخنوران و بزرگ‌ترین نویسندگان برای درست سخن گفتن [ استفاده از زبان لاتین] شور و شوق دارند.»”

  لورنزو والا (1407–1457) said by 1457 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Of the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having no standards by which to appraise them.”

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