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• “Perish you, Mohammad! Did you invite us here for this?”

  Abu Lahab (549–624) said by 624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Were you not too severe to unlearned hearers? Did you not feed them with meat instead of milk?”

  Aidan of Lindisfarne (590–651) said by 651 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Holy Spirit descends upon you, who are the Immaculate, to make you purer and give you the virtue of fertility.”

  Sophronius of Jerusalem (560–638) said by 638 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(About Radegund) When his eyes closed, darkness fell upon our eyes. His death brought joy to heaven but left us on earth with unbearable pain.”

  Baudonivia (550–615) said by 615 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They are not Angles, but angels.”

  Pope Gregory I (540–604) said by 604 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: William Hunt; Reginald Lane Poole, The Political History of England, Vol. 2 (Longmans, Green & Co., 1905), p. 115

• “Pure, undisturbed and quiet prayer is accomplished, performed, constituted and kept by four virtues, and is diminished, tarnished, destroyed and hindered by four passions.”

  Dadisho Qatraya (died 690) said by 690 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al-Musayyab from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry.”

  Muhammad (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If in order to help the needy one is able, without ill-will, to strip the rich down to their shirts, one is not doing wrong, especially if they are heartless skinflints.”

  John the Merciful (550–619) said by 619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: in Saints of the East (1963), p. 78

• “Those men are good who study the good of others without regarding themselves. Those men are ordinary men who, while they benefit others, do not neglect their own interests. Those men are demons who destroy another's good for their own profit. What shall we call those who aimlessly destroy that which is another's?”

  Bhartrihari (570–651) said by 651 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Prophet wrote the [marriage contract] with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years [i.e. till his death].”

  Aisha (614–678) said by 678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The product of a negative quantity and a positive is negative; of two negatives, is positive; of two positives, is positive. The product of zero and negative, or of zero and positive, is zero; [the product] of two zeros, is zero. (34).”

  Brahmagupta (598–670) said by 670 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Whoever fasts for a single day in the path of Allah, Allah will place him seventy years away from Hell.”

  Abu Said Al-Khudri (612–693) said by 693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.”

  Umar (586–644) said by 644 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in Al Farooq, Umar (1944) by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Ch. 5, p. 123

• “With a bronze mirror, one can see whether he is properly attired; with history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of a nation; with men as a mirror, one can see whether he is right or wrong. Now I've lost my faithful mirror by the death of Weizheng.”

  Emperor Taizong of Tang (598–649) said by 649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in: Yanqing Vanessa Ong et al. Memories unfolded: a guide to memories at Old Ford Factory, 2008, p. 50

• “I commit myself… (to the battle of) Yarmouk, the decisive gates of the land of Levant, and the decisive battle of Nahawand.... the gates of Persia for the Muslim..." Zubayr ibn Awwam reciting poem about the battle of Yarmouk and the battle of Nahavand before fighting in the Siege of Heliopolis,”

  Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (594–656) said by 656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Analysis (bija) is the intellect assisted by the various symbols that has now taken the name algebra (bijaganita).”

  Bhāskara I (600–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Datta and Singh, History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book, Part II, 1962:quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Pr…

• “The men went to Catraeth, swift was their host, the pale mead was their feast and it was their poison.”

  Aneirin (525–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thought, meditation and pondering is the life of clear sighted people”

  Hasan ibn Ali (625–669) said by 669 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “鹅 鹅 鹅， 曲 项 向 天 歌。 白 毛 浮 绿 水， 红 掌 拨 清 波。”

  Luo Binwang (640–684) said by 684 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On Geese", as translated by YeShell in How To Write Classical Chinese Poems (Lulu Press, 2015)

• “The indefiniteness beyond being”

  Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (500–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When Harsha’s father, the king of Sthānvīshvara, passed away, the people ‘bore him to the river Sarasvatī, and there upon a pyre befitting an emperor solemnly consumed all but his glory in the flames’. In a classic ritual, Harsha ‘passed on to the Sarasvatī’s banks, and having bathed in the river, offered water to his father’.”

  Bāṇabhaṭṭa (585–650) said by 650 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Bāna, Harsa-Carita, tr. E.B. Cowell, F.W. Thomas, London, 1929, pp. 158 & 160, quoted by Darian, Steven, ‘Gangā and Sarasvatī: An Incidence of Mythological Projection’, East and West, vol. 26, nos 1-2, 1976, p. 155. as …

• “A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”

  John Climacus (579–649) said by 649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If any one here can find a single wrong argument and can refute it, I will let him cut off my head.”

  Xuanzang (602–664) said by 664 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in Durant, Will (1963). Our Oriental heritage. New York: Simon & Schuster.