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“…Their idol of Zûr was of gold, and its eyes were two rubies. The zealous Musalmãns cut off its hands and plucked out its eyes, and then remarked to the Marzabãn how powerless was his idol to do either good or evil…”
Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura (died 670) said by 670 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'If I accepted you as the Messenger of God, I would not have been hostile to you. Write: Only your name and the name of your father'.”
Suhayl ibn Amr (570–639) said by 639 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By God! If any of the Arabs other than you were to say that to me, while he was in the same situation as you, I would not leave him without mentioning his mother's being deprived of him. I would say it whoever he might be. But, by God, there is no way for me to mention your mother except by saying the best things possible.”
Al-Hurr ibn Yazid Al-Tamimi (650–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Al-Tabari
“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
“Moreover, because the slothful mind is typically brought to its downfall gradually, when we fail to control our speech, we move on to more harsh words. Thus, at first, we are happy to speak of others kindly; afterwards, we begin to pick at the lives of those of whom we speak, and finally our tongues break into open slander against them.”
Pope Gregory I (540–604) said by 604 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
“Vexilla regis prodeunt: Fulget crucis mysterium Quo carne carnis conditor, Suspensus est patibulo.”
Venantius Fortunatus (530–609) said by 609 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From . Translated by in The Hymner, 2nd ed. (1905), no. 37
“Positive, divided by positive, or negative by negative, is positive. Zero, divided by zero, is zero. Positive, divided by negative, is negative. Negative, divided by positive, is negative. Positive, or negative, divided by zero, is a fraction with that for denominator: or zero divided by negative or positive. (35-36).”
Brahmagupta (598–670) said by 670 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Muhammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib.”
Husayn ibn Ali (626–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On any day calculate the longitude of the Sun and the Moon for sunrise or sunset without applying the longitude correction, and therefrom find the time (since sunrise or sunset), in ghatis, of rising or setting of the Moon; and having done this, note the corresponding time in ghatis from the water clock. From the difference, knowledgeable astronomers can calculate the local longitude in time.*?”
Bhāskara I (600–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bhaskara, quoted in C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007
“I shall not now speak of the knowledge of the Hindus … of their suitable discoveries in the science of astronomy—discoveries even more ingenious than those of the Greeks and Babylonians, of their rational system of mathematics, or of their method of calculation which no words can praise strongly enough; I mean the system using nine symbols.”
Severus Sebokht (575–667) said by 667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Severus Sebokht, quoted in The Wonder That Was India, A.L. Basham. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
“Omar then is reported to have asked Abu Lulu: "I heard that you make windmills; make one for me as well." In a sullen mood, Piruz said, Verily I will make such a mill for you, that the whole world would remember it.”
Piruz Nahavandi (died 644) said by 644 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)
“Porrige dulcisonas attentis auribus escas; Nolo tacere velis, nolo tacere velis.”
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. 17–18 (tr. Wendy Pfeffer, 1985)
“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
“From the retinue of Mynyddog they hastened forth; in a shining array they fed together round the wine-vessel. My heart has become full of grief for the feast of Mynyddog, I have lost too many of my true kinsmen.”
Aneirin (525–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Georges Gharib (editor), Testi mariani del primo millennio. Volume 2: Padri e altri autori bizantini, Città Nuova, Roma, 1989. ISBN 88-311-9216-7 (in Italian).”
Sophronius of Jerusalem (560–638) said by 638 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So let us not seek God as if he were far from us, because we can have him within us.”
Columbanus (543–615) said by 615 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source