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“In this art of poetry, those who speak ill of Teika should be denied the protection of the gods and Buddhas and condemned to the punishments of hell.”
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
“Sultan Ahmad Shah feasted for three days whenever the number of defenseless Hindus slain in his territories in one day reached twenty thousand.”
Ahmad Shah I (1389–1442) said by 1442 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Will Durant and , , Book I, Our Oriental Heritage (1935) VI. THE MOSLEM CONQUEST
“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
“There can only be one wisdom. For if it were possible that there be several wisdoms, then these would have to be from one. Namely, unity is prior to all plurality”
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“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)
“Quid enim a curia alienius quam religio esse potest?”
Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (1406–1438) said by 1438 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...you shall never hold the Kingdom of France from God, the King of Heaven, the son of St. Mary; but King Charles, the true heir, will hold it; for God, the King of Heaven wishes it so....”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) first seen 1429 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From her ultimatum to the English commanders at Orleans, dictated to a scribe on 22 March 1429; excerpt from the translation in "Joan of Arc: Her Story" (1999) by Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, p. 34.
“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
“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)
“Podemos falar de Constantinopla como um dos assentos patriarcais, quando ainda não era patriarcal, nem um assento ou uma cidade cristã, nem era assim, nem havia sido fundada, nem havia sido decidido o seu fundamento?”
Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) said by 1457 at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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
“Worschippe, ye that loveris bene this May, For of your blisse the kalendis are begonne, And sing with us, “away, winter, away! Cum, somer, cum, the suete sesoun and sonne!”
James I of Scotland (1394–1437) said by 1437 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These troubles are paved in the way of Allah. As we have the sword of Islam in our hands, if we were to not endure such hardship, it would not be worthy to call ourselves ghazis.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever resigns himself in love, Lives with greater freedom than anyone. Such a person lives without anxious care, For God cannot lose what is his own.”
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), 110.
“To escape is impossible, to surrender is unthinkable. Let us fight with bravery and honor our arms.”
John Hunyadi (1407–1456) first seen 1001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shortly before the Battle of Varna (10 November 1444). Attributed in R. G. Grant (ed.) 1001 Battles that Changed the Course of History (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2011) p. 224
“Poete hault, loenge d'escuiye, En ton jardin ne seroie qu'ortie.”
Eustache Deschamps (1340–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Grant translateur, noble Geoffroy Chaucier" line 31; text and translation from Ian S. Laurie and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (eds.), David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin (trans.) Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems (London: Rou…
“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
“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
“(Che) l’alma sciolta dal mondano errore Tanto più sente, quanto è più felice; E tant’ha più d’amor, quanto più intende.”
Giusto de' Conti (1390–1449) said by 1449 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La Bella Mano (Ed. Vinegia, 1531), p. 19.
“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)