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• “There the Unstruck Music eddies around the Infinite One; There in the midst the Throne of the Unheld is shining, whereon the great Being sits — Millions of suns are shamed by the radiance of a single hair of His body.”

  Kabir (1398–1518) said by 1518 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Il primo annunzio di mia cruda morte, | Se a chi muor per amor tanto è concesso, | Vo' che tra il sonno l'ombra mia t'apporte. (da Sonetto XCVI)”

  Angelo di Costanzo (1507–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Una republica sanza i cittadini riputati non può stare, né può governarsi in alcuno modo bene. Dall'altro canto, la riputazione de' cittadini è cagione della tirannide delle republiche. (libro III, cap. 28)”

  Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I pazienti sono i tuoi libri; il letto del malato il tuo studio.”

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

• “Il demonio è come una lima sorda che bisogna sorprendere fin dal principio.”

  Teresa d'Avila (1515–1582) said by 1582 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mi dicano però, per Giove, c'è forse una qualche parte della vita che non sia cupa, tetra, fastidiosa, senza grazia, senza spirito se non le si sarà aggiunto il condimento della follia, il piacere? (RCS 1996, p. 63)”

  Erasmo da Rotterdam (1466–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And above all things fashion thy life and conversation according to the doctrine of the holy ghost therein, that thou mayest be partaker of the good promises of God in the Bible, and be heir of his blessing in Christ.”

  Myles Coverdale (1488–1569) said by 1569 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He went out . . . and wept bitterly.”

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

• “[...] è viltà fra le agnelle esser leone. (I, 68, v. 8; p. 25)”

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

• “In many parts of the plains thorny jungles grow, behind the good defence of which the people… become stubbornly rebellious… and pay no taxes.”

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

• “The very pure spirit does not bother about the regard of others or human respect, but communes inwardly with God, alone and in solitude as to all forms, and with delightful tranquility, for the knowledge of God is received in divine silence.”

  John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.”

  Thomas More (1478–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)

• “Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.”

  Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ch. 14 (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Carew Hazlitt, 1877)

• “Like Andromach, Hector's wife, Was weary of her life, When she had lost her joy, Noble Hector of Troy; In like manner alsó Increaseth my deadly woe, For my sparrow is go.”

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

• “Considero la religione come un giocattolo per bambini, e ritengo che il solo peccato sia l'ignoranza.”

  Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Il fondamento essenziale di una società sana è nell'equa spartizione dei beni. (I, p. 51)”

  Tommaso Moro (1478–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.”

  Philip Sidney (1554–1586) said by 1586 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.”

  Titian (1490–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 32.

• “Per i cristiani timorati di Dio le tentazioni sono estremamente utili, un autentico esercizio cristiano per la carne e il sangue. Chi non ha tentazioni non sa nulla. Perciò tutto il Libro dei Salmi, in ogni verso, non è altro che tentazione, tribolazione, disgrazia, un libro pieno di tentazioni. (pp. 192-193)”

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

• “Guardati signore dal distruggere quel che tutti i tesori del mondo non potrebbero restaurare. (Melibea a Calisto: atto XIV)”

  Fernando de Rojas (1470–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Non comincia Fortuna mai per poco, | quando un mortal si piglia a scherno e a gioco (canto VIII, ottava L, versi 7-8)”

  Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) said by 1533 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.”

  Erasmus (1466–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Erasmus of Rotterdam‎ (1934) by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, and Cedar Paul, p. 91; reprinted in Erasmus — The Right to Heresy (2008) by Stefan Zweig, p. 62

• “Questa professione de' carrettieri, ovvero cocchieri, viene onorata poi da una gran moltitudine di persone ch'attesero alle carrozze d'uomini illustri, con gran segno di valore in cotale professione: come Automedonte fu cocchiero d'Achille [...]. (p. 1390)”

  Tommaso Garzoni (1549–1589) said by 1589 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.”

  John Heywood (1497–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer