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Said in the 1500s
“This government of yours does not please me, and I cannot trust it; you must change it and give me a pledge that you will observe everything you promised; otherwise you will soon realize that I do not want to live this way; and I will not ...my friend ...my enemy.”
Cesare Borgia (1475–1507) said by 1507 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Nuncio Baldesari Castilione: “[His majesty] should make up his mind and fast, because delay is very dangerous.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam.”
Erasmus (1466–1536) first seen 1500 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Jacob Batt (12 April 1500); Collected Works of Erasmus Vol 1 (1974)
“He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.”
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) said by 1549 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quhowbeit that divers devote cunnyng Clerkis In Latyne toung hes wryttin syndrie bukis, Our unlernit knawis lytill of thare werkis, More than thay do the rauyng of the Rukis. Quharefore to Colyearis, Cairtaris, & to Cukis, To Jok and Thome, my Ryme sall be diractit, With cunnyng men quhowbeit it wylbe lactit.”
David Lyndsay (1490–1555) first seen 1554 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld (1554), line 545
“'After this success, Ghazi (Victor in a Holy-war) was written amongst the royal titles. Below the titles (tughra) entered on the Fath-nama, I wrote the following quatrain: For Islam's sake, I wandered in the wilds, Prepared for war with pagans and Hindus, Resolved myself to meet the martyr's death, Thanks be to Allah! a ghazi I became.”
Babur (1483–1531) said by 1531 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 574-75
“He in all this working useth the office of a kind nurse that hath nought else to do but to give heed about the salvation of her child.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1500) said by 1500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
“Chè nel mondo mutabile e leggiero, Costanza è spesso il variar pensiero.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) said by 1595 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My personal affairs are not as highly esteemed as men commonly value their own interests—vain, empty affairs like those great clouds seen in the wake of the sunset which are meaningless and soon pass away.”
Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sorgt, dass nicht so viele vom Müßiggang leben!" - Utopia. a. a. O., S. 31.”
Thomas Morus (1478–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zieh viele darüber zurate, was du tun sollst, aber teile nur wenigen mit, was du ausführen wirst." - Kriegskunst”
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will say no more, than that I will act as I shall answer hereafter to God and to man.”
William the Silent (1533–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After his wedding ceremony, on marrying his second wife, who was a Lutheran, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 32
“I do not cease to gyue thankes, that it hathe pleased hys goodnes to vse me, as an instrument and to worke somwhat by me, so I truste, I am as ready to serue hym in my calling to my litel power, as ye ar preste, to wryght worse of me then ye owght to thinke. My prayer is, that God gyue me no longer lyfe, then I shall be gladde to vse myn office in edificatione, and not in destructione.”
Thomas Cromwell (1485–1540) first seen 1536 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Nicholas Shaxton (March 1538), quoted in Roger Bigelow Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Volume II: Letters from 1536, Notes, Index (1902), p. 129
“Ve ne sono molti che scrivono i beneficii nella polvere, e l'ingiurie nel marmo.”
Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 436.
“For as soon as the Bible was cast aside, and no more put in exercise, then began every one of his own head to write whatsoever came into his brain and that seemed to be good in his own eyes: and so grew the darkness of men's traditions.”
Myles Coverdale (1488–1569) said by 1569 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Illustrious Lord, hearing that your Excellency has gone to the court of his Imperial Majesty [Charles V], I abstain from coming to Mantua, sighing at my bad fortune in not having left Bologna soon enough to meet your Grace. At Venice I shall prepare the copy of the portrait of his Majesty, which I take home with me at your Excellency's bidding.”
Titian (1490–1576) first seen 1533 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to the Duke of Mantua, from Bologna, 10 March 1533; as quoted by J.A.Y. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle in Titian his life and times - With some account..., publisher John Murray, London, 1877, p. 370
“By the aid of the vice-regal troops he pulled down the heathen temples in the neighbourhood of Goa, and appropriated their very considerable property for the use and benefit of the new College." (Page 89)”
Francis Xavier (1506–1552) said by 1552 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theodor Griesinger-"The Jesuits; a complete history." translated from German into English by A. J. Smith. M. D. and was published in 1892 by W. H. Allen and Co. publishers to the India office London. quoted from Shradda…
“glaubst du, so hast du, glaubst du nicht, so hast du nicht." - (1847) Hrsg. Karl Zimmermann, S.19 books.google”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Der Körper kann ohne den Geist nicht bestehen, aber der Geist bedarf nicht des Körpers." - Handbüchlein eines christlichen Streiters”
Erasmus von Rotterdam (1466–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ce sont les fortes raisons qui déterminent nos résolutions; ce sont les petites raisons qui nous arrêtent au moment de les exécuter. De loin tout le monde a envie de faire un beau voyage; et, à l'heure du départ, plus d'un est arrêté par la crainte de la cuisine ou des lits d'auberge.”
Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source