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• “I do not think of the priesthood as liberty, as many do, but as the most severe and oppressive form of service.”

  Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) first seen 1421 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Niccolò de' Niccoli, London, 30 November 1421 (tr. P. W. G. Gordan, 1974)

• “Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre, Seulete m'a mon doulz ami laissiée, Seulete suy, sanz compaignon ne maistre, Seulette suy, dolente et courrouciée.”

  Christine de Pizan (1364–1430) said by 1430 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cent Balades, no. 11, line 1; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 12. Translation from Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone (eds.) A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (1980) …

• “Nothing will induce me to leave Rome, not even if, like so many others, I am to fall a victim to the plague. Mahomet, the enemy of our faith, compels me to remain. He does not relax his efforts, although thousands in his immense army have been carried off.”

  Pope Callixtus III (1379–1458) first seen 1456 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remarks to the Milanese ambassador, Jacopo Calcaterra (27 July 1456), quoted in Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume II (1891), p. 399

• “Pro tali numismate tales merces.”

  Gabriel Biel (1418–1495) said by 1495 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

• “Prince, je congnois tout en somme, Je congnois coulourez et blesmes, Je congnois Mort qui tout consomme, Je congnois tout, fors que moy mesmes.”

  François Villon (1431–1463) first seen 1458 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ballade des Menus Propos (Ballade of Small Talk)", line 25. (1458).

• “So ferr I fallyng into lufis dance, That sodeynly my wit, my contenance, My hert, my will, my nature and my mynd, Was changit clene ryght in anothir kynd.”

  James I of Scotland (1394–1437) said by 1437 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nè cosa alcuna è che adombri più la verità, quanto fa la autorità.”

  Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When Sikandar’s successor Sultan Zainul Abedin (aka Shahi Khan, r. 1417–67), another deviant Muslim ruler, permitted the converted Hindus to revert, records Sydney Owen, ‘many Hindus (i.e., Hindus converted to Islam by force) were re-admitted into the Hindu fold.’”

  Zain-ul-Abidin (1401–1470) said by 1470 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quoted in M.A. Khan , Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery (2011), quoting Owen S (1987) From Mahmud Ghazni to the Disintegration of Mughal Empire, Kanishka Publishing House, New Delhi,

• “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

• “He made efforts at the proclamation of the word of God (confession of the Muslim faith). He led an army for plundering the temple of Somnat, that is, Pattan Dev. He spread Islam at most of the places.”

  Muzaffar Shah I (died 1411) first seen 1392 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultãn Muzaffar Shãh I of Gujarat (AD 1392-1410) Somnath (Gujarat). Mirat-i-Ahmdi, translated into English by M.F. Lokhandwala, Baroda, 1965,pp 34

• “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)

• “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

• “I am king of the Romans and above grammar.”

  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437) said by 1437 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Original Latin: Ego sum rex Romanus et super grammaticam. Carlyle, Thomas (1858). History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (Volume II). Gutenberg.org.

• “... nemini parcitur, non modo absenti, sed ne praesenti quidem. Invehitur pariter in cunctos magno risu et cachinno omnium. Cenae, popinae, lenocinia, largitiones, furta, adulteria, stupra, flagitia in medium proferuntur. Qua ex re non voluptas tantummodo, sed etiam illa vel maxima capitur utilitas, quod, cum ita vita ac mores omnium ponantur tibi ante oculos.”

  Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (1406–1438) said by 1438 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.”

  John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 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

• “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

• “In Fortunam Inveni portum spes et fortuna valete Nil mini vobiscum ludite nunc alios.”

  Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Inscription on the tomb of Francesco Pucci in the church of St. Onuphrius (St. Onofrio), Rome. Translation by Burton, , Part II, Section III. Memb. 6. Quoted by him as a saying of Prudentius. Attributed to Janus Pannoni…

• “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

• “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

• “No single bone in my body is holy - It is but an ash heap of stinking bones. Dig a deep hole and there bury these remains Thus, not a grain of dust will stain The green 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