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Said in the 1400s

• “And for to see, and eek for to be seie.”

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “Jasnowłosy Apollo, jeśli pomnisz jeszcze Na twoją pierwszą miłość i nie zgasła w tobie Litość, uczyń mnie, proszę, boć możesz, szczęśliwym.”

  Wawrzyniec Wspaniały (1449–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote:pl, 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

• “Rzekłbyś, że to nie król, ale człowiek zwyczajny, który dla równego sobie żadnej nie szczędzi pomocy i usługi.”

  Władysław II Jagiełło (1362–1434) said by 1434 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Źródło: Juliusz Bardach, Władysław II Jagiełło w: Poczet królów i książąt polskich, wyd. Czytelnik, Warszawa 1991, s. 286.

• “Możecie spalić gęś, ale kiedyś nadejdzie łabędź, którego nie spalicie. w innej wersji - Możecie spalić tą gęś ale nie minie sto lat gdy pojawi się łabędź którego nie spalicie.”

  Jan Hus (1370–1415) said by 1415 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ten jest najwyższy, w którym mieszka większa cnota; ani wzniosłość, ani pokora człowieka nie leży w ciele, zależnie od płci, lecz w doskonałości postępowania i cnót.”

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

• “thou art far weaker than thou art able to comprehend. Let, therefore, nothing which thou doest seem to thee great; let nothing be grand, nothing of value or beauty, nothing worthy of honour, nothing lofty, nothing praiseworthy or desirable, save what is eternal”

  Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quin eo deventum est ut iam (proh dolor!) non existimentur sapientes nisi qui mercennarium faciunt studium sapientiae.”

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) said by 1494 at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “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

• “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.

• “Nikt nie może uczynić tego, co ja, a skoro zrobiłem to, czego nikt inny nie może, to takie jest moje przeznaczenie.”

  Gilles de Rais (1405–1440) said by 1440 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Źródło: José María López Ruiz, Tyrani i zbrodniarze. Najwięksi nikczemnicy w dziejach świata, tłum. Agata Ciastek, Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 2006, s. 125.

• “Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise the King born of all England.”

  Thomas Malory (1405–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “Ciało ludzkie obróci się w proch; jednak dopóki oddycha – pogarda wobec człowieka to pogarda wobec życia.”

  Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) said by 1472 at the latest wikiquote:pl, 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

• “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

• “Chrześcijanin (…) nie powinien się troszczyć o wzbogacenie swoich dzieci, ale wcale nie powinien ich wzbogacić. Albowiem, jeśli będą dobre, nie będą dbać o bogactwa ani też ich potrzebować, jeśli złe zaś, dobrą rzeczą będzie, że nie są bogate, by tyle złego nie mogły uczynić, ile by chciały.”

  Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) said by 1498 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But in proverbe I have herde say, That who that wel his werk beginneth, The rather a good end he winneth.”

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

• “When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.”

  Louis XI (1423–1483) said by 1483 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Gleason's Pictorial, vol. 5, no. 1 (2 July 1853), p. 175

• “From the world of passions returning to the world of passions: There is a moment's pause. If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”

  Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Essence of Zen : Zen Buddhism for Every Day and Every Moment (2002) by Mark Levon Byrne, p. 28.

• “Arah-balan naga-rada rov Sadha ror tsuran manz Muda gharan gora Pandita ror Ruza hansa ror kuran manz.”

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

  Recorded in: The Indian Antiquary, October 1929: "A Life of Nand Rishi by Pandit Anand Koul ", p. 197

• “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