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• “A aucuns les biens viennent en dormant.”

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

  Recorded in: Proverb traditionally connected with Louis XI, cited in Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 1

• “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

• “Look well unto thyself, and beware that thou judge not the doings of others. In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.”

  Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) said by 1471 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

• “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

• “Our faith obliges us to bind wounds, not to make blood run.”

  Petr Chelčický (1390–1460) said by 1460 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Comparable with Chawcer, yet more occupyed in supersticious and odde matters than was requesite in so good a wytte.”

  John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: William Webbe A Discourse of Englishe Poetry ([1586] 1970) p. 32.

• “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

• “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)

• “…The Rãjã of Îdar ran away to the mountains and on the fourth day the Sultãn started from Morãsã and halted near Îdar. He ordered that the houses and temples of Îdar should be destroyed in such a way that no trace of them should remain.”

  Muzaffar Shah I (died 1411) said by 1411 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultãn Muzaffar Shãh II of Gujarat (AD 1511-1526) Idar (Gujarat) Mir‘ãt-i-Sikandarî in S.A.A. Rizvi in Uttara Taimûr Kãlîna Bhãrata, Aligarh, 1959, Vol. II, p. 350

• “Passionis prælo in torculari.”

  Gabriel Biel (1418–1495) said by 1495 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Radu III the Fair, son”

  Vlad II Dracul (1395–1447) said by 1447 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Considerés que c'est de pueple, quant il s'esmuet et esliève et il a puissance contre son seigneur, et par especial en Angleterre. Là n'y a-il nul remède, car c'est le plus périlleus poeuple commun qui soit au monde et le plus oultrageux et orgueilleux. Et de tous ceulx d'Angleterre Londriens sont chiefs.”

  Jean Froissart (1337–1410) said by 1410 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The intellect is prompted by nature to comprehend the whole breadth of being. ... Under the concept of truth it knows all, and under the concept of the good it desires all.”

  Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) said by 1499 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Hindus and Turks live close together. Each makes fun of the other’s religion. (dhamme) (...) The Turks coerce passers-by into doing forced labour. Grabbing hold of a Brahmin boy, they put a cow’s vagina on his head. They rub out his tilak and break his sacred thread. (...) They destroy temples and construct mosques.”

  Vidyapati (1352–1448) said by 1448 at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “Беспечность есть причина всяких бедствий.”

  Абдуррахман Нураддин ибн Ахмад Джами (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Aussi tost vient à Pasques limaçon.”

  Eustache Deschamps (1340–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Moult se vantoit li cerfs d'estre legiers", line 10; text and translation from Brian Woledge (ed.) The Penguin Book of French Verse, 1: To the Fifteenth Century (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1961] 1968) p. 238.

• “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

• “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

• “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