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Said in the 1600s

• “He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”

  Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “People were soon talking only of my bons mots, and they esteemed my wit so highly that the clergy was forced to publish a decree that forbade anyone to believe I was capable of reason, and it expressly commanded everyone of all ranks to believe — no matter how intelligently I might act — that I was guided by instinct.”

  Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance — a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.”

  Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) said by 1600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “वे शांति से मृत्यु को तरजीह देते हैं, दूसरे युद्ध की अपेक्षा मृत्यु को तरजीह देते हैं।”

  ब्लेज़ पास्कल (1623–1662) said by 1662 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “La perfidie est noble envers la tyrannie.”

  Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) said by 1684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.”

  Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...”

  Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) first seen 1655 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech dissolving the First Protectorate Parliament (22 January 1655)

• “12 Proposition. The first of the Seven thunders, and the seventh and last Trumpet or Viall, begin both at once in An.1541.”

  John Napier (1550–1617) said by 1617 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “दर्शन जब सतही रूप से अध्ययन किया जाता है, तो संदेह को उत्तेजित करता है, जब पूरी तरह से खोजा जाता है, तो यह उसे दूर कर देता है”

  फ्रांसिस बेकन (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote:hi, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No ves ese peñasco, que parece Que se está sustendando con trabajo, Y con el ansia misma que padece, Ha tantos siglos que se viene abajo? Pues mordaza es, que sella y enmudece El aliento á una boca, que debajo Abierta está, por donde con pereza El monte melancolico bosteza.”

  Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) said by 1681 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Act II, sc. iv (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1880)

• “My shirt is near me, but my skin is nearest.”

  Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We should never say anything with an air of authority, nor show any superiority of mind. We should avoid far-fetched expressions, expressions hard or forced, and never let the words be grander than the matter.”

  François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In large-scale strategy, when we see that the enemy has few men, or if he has many men but his spirit is weak and disordered, we knock the hat over his eyes, crushing him utterly. If we crush lightly, he may recover.”

  Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Remember that zeal, being an excrescence of divine love, must in no sense contradict any action of love. Love to God includes love to our neighbour; and therefore no pretence of zeal for God’s glory must make us uncharitable to our brother; for that is just so pleasing to God as hatred is an act of love.”

  Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.

• “The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.”

  John Selden (1584–1654) said by 1654 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound?”

  John Flavel (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.”

  Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) said by 1679 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!”

  John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “Une femme a toujours une vengeance prête.”

  Molière (1622–1673) said by 1673 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I will make you shorter by the head.”

  Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) first seen 1566 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Response to Parliament (October 1566)

• “Yet I a way to raise my self have found, Shall make my Name through all the World renown'd.”

  John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all, By you we do confer with who are gone, And the dead living unto counsel call: By you th'unborn shall have communion Of what we feel, and what doth us befall.”

  Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And of universal nature, the notion I would offer, should be something like this. Nature is the aggregate of the bodies, that make up the world, in its present state, considered as a principle, by virtue whereof, they act and suffer, according to the laws of motion, prescribed by the author of things.”

  Robert Boyle (1627–1691) said by 1691 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hope is generally a wrong Guide, though it is very good Company by the way. It brusheth through Hedge and Ditch till it cometh to a great Leap, and there it is apt to fall and break its Bones.”

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source