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“Voyez tous les pays que les Arabes ont conquis depuis les siècles les plus reculés : la civilisation en a disparu, ainsi que la population ; le sol même paraît avoir changé de nature”
Ibn Khaldoun (1332–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is impossible that Christendom finds its peace in God's will, if the priesthood is not being called to order.”
Jan Hus (1370–1415) said by 1415 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thereafter in AH 823 (AD 1420-21) he proceeded to different parts of his Kingdom for establishing order and good government… He got temples demolished and palaces and mosques constructed in their stead…”
Ahmad Shah I (1389–1442) first seen 1411 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sultãn Ahmad Shãh I of Gujarat (AD 1411-1443) General Order Mir‘ãt-i-Sikandarî in S.A.A. Rizvi in Uttara Taimûr Kãlîna Bhãrata, Aligarh, 1959, Vol. II, p. 273 , in Hindu Temples, vol 2
“Muche crye and litil woll.”
John Fortescue (1394–1479) said by 1479 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 10 (ed. Plummer, 1885)
“Thus, while I am borne to loftiest heights, I behold Thee as Infinity”
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 39 and p. 383, Princeton University Press, 1981.
“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)
“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
“Est-il un nom plus doux que celui que l'amour nous impose, et la mélodie la plus touchante peut-elle lui être comparée ?”
Djami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote:fr, 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
“Vente, gresle, gelle, j'ay mon pain cuit. Ie suis paillart, la paillarde me suit. Lequel vault mieulx? Chascun bien s'entresuit. L'ung vault l'autre; c'est a mau rat mau chat. Ordure amons, ordure nous assuit; Nous deffuyons onneur, il nous deffuit, En ce bordeau ou tenons nostre estat.”
François Villon (1431–1463) said by 1463 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1621; "Ballade de la Grosse Margot (Ballade for Fat Margot)".
“Odyous of olde been comparisonis.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis.”
Richard Holland (1415–1482) first seen 1450 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Buke of the Howlat (c. 1450), ii. 400-403. Dedication (to the wife of a Douglas).
“If you cut even a branch out of my forests, I'd cut your head off!”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou, for whose love I've sacrifice existence, Art, yet art not, the sum of earth's existence, Earth lacks true Being, yet depends thereon— Thou art true Being, Thou art pure existence The Loved One is quite colourless, O heart, Be not engrossed with colours, then, O heart All colours come from what is colourless, And 'who can dye so well as God,' O heart?”
Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I think that if everybody maintains a strong determination and will, only very few would not be able to become reasonable horsemen through lack of the minimal physical condition.”
Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) said by 1438 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
“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
“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
“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)
“Well, said Merlin, I know whom thou seekest, for thou seekest Merlin; therefore seek no farther, for I am he.”
Thomas Malory (1405–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vlad III of Wallachia, son”
Vlad II Dracul (1395–1447) said by 1447 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Away, away with these things! take them for the Turks! Earthenware will do quite as well for me!”
Pope Callixtus III (1379–1458) said by 1458 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brief (undated) on his sacrificing his silver plate to finance the crusade against the Ottomans, quoted in Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume II (1891), p. 387