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“सत्य मेरी तलवार है, आस्था मेरी ढाल, और ईश्वर मेरा सेनापति है।”
आर्क की जॉन (1412–1431) said by 1431 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soit qu'elle danse, cante ou rie, Ou face quelque esbatement, Faictes en loyal jugement, Sans faveur et sans flatterie.”
Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465) said by 1465 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is little to lose a few teeth in the service of him, who has given me all. Our Lord, who reared this fabric, has only opened a window, in order to discern the more readily what passes within.”
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (died 1488) first seen 1486 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peter Martyr, Opus Epistolarum, b. 1, ep. 62; and Andrés Bernáldez, Reyes Católicos, MS, ch. 78. In 1486 Edward went to Spain to aid Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille in the Reconquista of Granada. "There cam…
“Cum reverentia prego per lo dolce & suave amore iesu cristo qualunque persona a la quale vegnira noticia di questa picoletta opera facta cum lo divino adiutorio.”
Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463) said by 1463 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, who is the Prince of Wisdom, Is of himself ever ready To communicate to all created minds The overflowing rays of his supernal Wisdom.”
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), 62,63.
“Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing; If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully - A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages. Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!”
Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Man's Root" as quoted in Mishima's Sword : Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (2007) by Christopher Ross, p. 195.
“The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul.”
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) said by 1499 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tam doctus scribat cur nil Aurispa, requiris? Credatur multò doctus ut esse magis.”
Janus Pannonius (1434–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Aurispa ("Of Aurispa"), in Sales epigrammatum, tr. James Wright (London, 1663), p. 122
“Every man waits his destined hour; even the cities are doomed to their fate. Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.”
Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) first seen 1430 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Niccolò de' Niccoli, Rome, 3 September 1430 (tr. P. W. G. Gordan, 1974)
“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
“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
“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
“He hath the sor which no man heleth, The which is cleped lack of herte.”
John Gower (1330–1408) said by 1408 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
“If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) first seen 1431 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First public examination (21 February 1431)
“The universe will sustain only if the forests sustain.”
Nund Rishi (1378–1439) said by 1439 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Retrieved from The Contribution of Shaikh Noor Ud din As a pioneer Environmentalist., p.783 on 24 November 2023
“The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.”
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I knew a foreigner from anywhere in his virtue who would love God and would be interested in the good more than my own brother, he would be dearer to me than my brother. And hence I prefer good English priests over timid Czech priests and good German over an evil brother.”
Jan Hus (1370–1415) said by 1415 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).
“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
“Whoever wishes to escape, let him save himself if he can; and whoever is ready to face death, let him follow me!”
Constantine XI Palaiologos (1404–1453) said by 1453 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Final order to his suite. Spandugin Cantacuzin, Comentari, p. 190–6. C. Mijatovich (1892) p. 220