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“O people, the first day is difficult but if I live I shall deliver a proper speech.”
Uthman (574–656) said by 656 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will follow the ways of those who came before you, inch by inch and cubit by cubit, even if they were to enter the hole of a monitor lizard, you would follow them." We asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Do you mean the Jews and Christians?" He said, "Who else?”
Abu Said Al-Khudri (612–693) said by 693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abu Bakr al-Siddiq said to Khalid ibn al-Walid: Strive for death, then you will be given life."واحرص على الموت توهب لك الحياة" Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd author Ibn Abd Rabbih (1/92 )”
Abu Bakr (573–634) said by 634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“Crux fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis: Nulla silva talem profert, Fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, Dulce pondus sustinet.”
Venantius Fortunatus (530–609) said by 609 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Lustra sex qui jam peracta. Translated by in The Hymner, 2nd ed. (1905), no. 39
“The mind of sentient beings as it is in itself has neither marks nor nature. It is like the ocean, like space. Since it is like space, there are no marks that are not subsumed within it. How could it contain a direction such as east or west? Since it is like the ocean, there is no nature that is preserved.”
Wonhyo (617–686) said by 686 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In preeminence, the cause of all that is intelligible is not anything intelligible.”
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (500–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mahatama Gandhi || The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol 19, Letter #36, Pg 48-49. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1966.”
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“I stood asking news of the ruins concerning their lovely habitants; but what avail my questions to dreary rocks, who answer them only by their echo?”
Labīd (560–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He whose will and desire in conversation is to establish his own opinion, even though what he says is true, should recognize that he is sick with the devil's disease.”
John Climacus (579–649) said by 649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“海内存知己， 天涯若比邻。”
Wang Bo (650–676) said by 676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farewell to Perfect Du", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 37
“If [the monks] wish to devote themselves to reading so that they do not work, they are contumacious to reading itself, because they do not do what they read there.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ἤδη καὶ γλυκύπικρον ἐδέξατο κέντρον Ἐρώτων.”
Musaeus Grammaticus (500–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tr. Chapman (1616)
“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”
Khalid ibn al-Walid (586–642) said by 642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This letter was written by Khalid, from his head-quarters in Babylonia, to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III before invading it. (History of the World, Volume IV [Book XII. The Mohammedan Ascendency], page 463, …
“Vox, philomela, tua cantus edicere cogit, Inde tui laudem rustica lingua canit.”
Eugenius II of Toledo (died 657) said by 657 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vox philomela (Carmen philomelaicum), ll. 1–2 (tr. Gerald Brenan, 1951)
“यां चिन्तयामि सततं मयि सा विरक्ता साप्यन्यमिच्छति जनं स जनोऽन्यसक्त:। अस्मत्कृते च परिशुष्यति काचिदन्या धिक्ताञ्च तं च मदनं च इमां च मां च ॥”
Bhartrihari (570–651) said by 651 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Celui dont la foi est complète est le croyant qui a le comportement le plus excellent. Le meilleur d’entre vous est celui qui se comporte bien avec sa femme.”
Mahomet (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is the foal of a mare more valuable in your eyes than the Son of God?”
Aidan of Lindisfarne (590–651) said by 651 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source