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• “The cause why He suffereth is for He will of His goodness make us the higher with Him in His bliss; and for this little pain that we suffer here, we shall have an high endless knowing in God which we could never have without that.”

  Julian of Norwich (1342–1500) said by 1500 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

• “The image of St. Theresa, the Spaniard, is not less than that of St Francis of Assisi. Let us also recall the ancient times when, in spite of the fact that masculine egoism always attempted to suppress the achievements of women, there were always some illumined minds that did not submit to this shameful weakness.”

  Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) said by 1582 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Helena Roerich, in Letters of Helena Roerich II, (9 August 1937)

• “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; but the dose makes it clear that a thing is not a poison.”

  Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O ye wretched Scottes, Ye puaunt pyspottes, It shalbe your lottes To be knytte up with knottes Of halters and ropes About your traytours throtes.”

  John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lines 119–124, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 318

• “[I] purposely avoided the styles of Raphael and Michaelangelo because I was ambitious of higher distinction than that of a clever imitator.”

  Titian (1490–1576) first seen 1545 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Titian's remark to Francesco Vargas, the Spanish envoy, c. 1545; in Vicus, De studiorum ratione, u. s. p. 109; as quoted by J.A.Y. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle in Titian his life and times - With some account..., publisher…

• “Trithemius to Agrippa”

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God despises the powerful and the mighty, the likes of Herod, Caiaphas, and Annas, and he accepts for his service the small, like Mary, Zechariah, and Elizabeth. For that is God's way of working , and down to the present day he does not act otherwise.”

  Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525) first seen 1524 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Special Exposure of False Faith" (1524)

• “Contra uma dama, ó peitos carniceiros, Feros vos amostrais, e cavaleiros?”

  Luís de Camões (1524–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Luís Vaz de Camões (pt)

• “Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.”

  Francesco Berni (1497–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I doe assure your lordship since Queen Mary's time the papists were never in that jollity they be at present in this country.”

  Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588) first seen 1579 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From a letter to Lord Burghley (20 October 1579), written at ; BL, Harley MS. 6992, fol. 112r; see also: Edgar I. Fripp, Shakespearean Studies (1930), p. 91

• “He thus put an end to all the idolatrous rites of the infidels there; and no Hindu, if he wished to have his head or beard shaved, could get a barber to do it. Every city thus conformed as he desired to the customs of Islam.”

  Sikandar Khan Lodi (1458–1517) said by 1517 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse.”

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Du Bartas

• “I know she swore with raging mind, Her kingdom only set apart, There was no loss, by law of kind, That could have gone so near her heart; And this was chiefly all her pain: "She could not make the like again".”

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) said by 1547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Diet of bankrupts... To-day, Messer Paolo is to visit me, and to-morrow there will be the cardinal; and thus they think to befool me, at their pleasure. But I, on my side, am only dallying with them. I listen to all they have to say and bide my own time.”

  Cesare Borgia (1475–1507) first seen 1502 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cesare to Machiavelli about his contempt for the Orsini (October 1502), as quoted by Rafael Sabatini, 'The Life of Cesare Borgia', Chapter XV: Machiavelli's Legation

• “For to be yong I wald not, for my wis Off all this warld to mak me lord et king: The more of age the nerar hevynnis blis.”

  Robert Henryson (1425–1506) said by 1506 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.”

  William Tyndale (1494–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Je crains que par longue absence de nostre roy Pantagruel est que je me face compaignie, voire allast il à tous les diables, ma femme me fasse coqu. Voy là le mot peremptoire : car tous ceulx à qui j'en ay parlé me en menassent et afferment qu'il me est ainsi prædestiné des cieulx.”

  François Rabelais (1494–1553) first seen 1552 wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Rabelais 353 1966 1552 Gallimard Tiers Livre XXVIII, « Comment frere Jean reconforte Panurge sus le doubte de Coquage » }} {{citation {{personnage|Rondibilis

• “It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.”

  Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Luther, Hartmann Grisar, 1915, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, vol. 4, p. 126, (referencing, the Corpus Reformatorum, vol. 4, 737-740. [http://www.archive.org/details/luthergris04grisuoft

• “Then Kill me at once!”

  William the Silent (1533–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reply to the people who preferred Philip II over the Duke of Anjou, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison

• “We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifty million.”

  Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There are two trade marts on the land route between Hindustan and Khurasan; one is Kabul, the other, Qandhar... from Hindustan, come every year caravans... bringing slaves (barda) and other commodities, and sell them at great profit.”

  Babur (1483–1531) said by 1531 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Un État bien constitué doit donc ordonner aux citoyens l'art de la guerre comme un exercice, un objet d'étude pendant la paix; et, pendant la guerre, comme un objet de nécessité et une occasion d'acquérir de la gloire, mais c'est au gouvernement seul, ainsi que le pratiqua celui de Rome, à l'exercer comme métier.”

  Nicolas Machiavel (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God’s goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.”

  John Calvin (1509–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source