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• “The second necessity which obtains in India, if those who live there are to be good Christians, is that your highness should introduce the holy Inquisition [...]”

  Francis Xavier (1506–1552) said by 1552 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Neill, Stephen. A History of Christianity in India. Cambridge University Press, 1984. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Pr…

• “Autant de langues que l'homme sçait parler, autant de fois est-il homme.”

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: John G. Robertson, Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements (1991), page 250: "Attributed to Charles V

• “He that has patience may compass anything.”

  François Rabelais (1494–1553) said by 1553 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Francis Rabelais

• “Nienawykła jestem do tego, by zdejmować me szaty w obecności tak wielu osób.”

  Maria I Stuart (1542–1587) said by 1587 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Źródło: dr Anna Kalinowska, Maria I Stuart w: Tudorowie i Stuartowie (tom 2. serii Dynastie Europy), Biblioteka Gazety Wyborczej, 2010, ISBN 97883268008525, s. 61.

• “I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.”

  Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) said by 1506 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God became man in order to make me God; therefore I want to be changed completely into pure God”

  Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) said by 1510 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have accustomed my features always to assume an expression quite contrary to my feelings; thus I am able to feign outwardly, yet within know nothing of dissumulation. This habit is easy if compared to the practice of hoping for nothing, which I have bent my efforts toward acquiring for fifteen successive years, and have at last succeeded.”

  Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest: Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain; And virtue sank the deeper in his breast: Such profit he by envy could obtain.”

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

• “I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.”

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

• “Do natury człowieka należy wolność i to, że chce być wolny, łatwo jednak nabiera on przyzwyczajenia do czegoś innego, gdy skłania go ku temu edukacja.”

  Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) said by 1563 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the afternoon we were in a barge, watching the games on the river. The Queen was alone with Lord Robert and myself on the poop when they began to talk nonsense, and went so far, that Lord Robert at last said, as I was on the spot, there was no reason why they should not be married, if the Queen pleased.”

  Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588) first seen 1561 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From a letter by to (30 June 1561); J. A. Froude, History of England, vol. 7 (New York, 1881), Ch. IV

• “Fakt, że wszystko, co należy do tego świata, przemija. (...) (Bóg jest) zawsze, zawsze, zawsze.”

  Teresa z Ávili (1515–1582) said by 1582 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the spight of his teeth.”

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

  Recorded in: Line 939. Compare: "In spite of my teeth", Thomas Middleton, A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), act i, scene 2.; Henry Fielding, Eurydice Hissed

  Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer

• “It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”

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

• “My true love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given.”

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

• “Book One, Natural Magic”

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

• “Nowy król Polski miał się za zagubionego. Z daleka od matki, porwany przez cudzoziemców przybyłych z północy, Henryk Andegaweński podobny był do Anteusza, syna Ziemi, który wzniesiony na barkach Herkulesa, utracił wszystkie swe siły. Książę sądził, że przejechawszy granicę, na zawsze traci prawo do francuskiego tronu.”

  Henryk III Walezjusz (1551–1589) said by 1589 at the latest wikiquote:pl, 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)

• “Trzeba przeto być lisem, by wiedzieć, co sidła, i lwem, by postrach budzić u wilków.”

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

• “Onde pode acolher-se um fraco humano, Onde terá segura a curta vida, Que não se arme, e se indigne o Céu sereno Contra um bicho da terra tão pequeno?”

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

• “Kurtyzana, która się kocha w czymś innym niż w sakiewce swego przyjaciela, jest jak ów pijak nałogowy, co to by nawet z ciała szaty sprzedał, aby móc pić dalej.”

  Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The more the honor and love of Christ increases among men, so much the esteem and honor given to [[Mary should grow”

  Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) said by 1531 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cut my cote after my cloth.”

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

  Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer

• “What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.”

  Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source