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• “संपत्सु महतां चित्तं भवत्युत्पलकोमलं । आपत्सु च महाशैलशिलासंघातकर्कशम् ॥”

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

• “In preeminence, the cause of all that is sensible is not anything sensible.”

  Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (500–600) said by 600 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

• “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)

• “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

• “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

• “神山の山邊真蘇木綿みじか木綿かくのみ故に長くと思ひき”

  高市皇子 (654–696) said by 696 at the latest wikiquote:ja, 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

• “熟田津に船乗りせむと月待てば潮もかなひぬ今は漕ぎ出でな --『万葉集』巻一(8)”

  額田王 (630–690) said by 690 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And with animals, if we approach them in a rational way we shall find a trace of the intelligible in them which is a not unworthy imitation of what is above reason. For if we look at those beings that naturally care for their offspring, we are encouraged to define for ourselves reverently and with godly boldness that God exercises providence in his sovereign uniqueness over all beings.”

  Maximus the Confessor (579–662) said by 662 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ambiguum 10, 1189B-C; trans. , Maximus the Confessor (Routledge, 1996) pp. 144-145.

• “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

• “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

• “It is my arm (that you should praise) not my sword..." Zubayr ibn Awwam response towards his comrades appraisal after he killed Nawfal ibn Abdullah al-Makhzumi during the battle of the Trench.”

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

• “「ムスリム信徒を傷つける者は、確かに、わたしを傷つけているのである」 『ビハール・アル＝アンワール』67巻、72頁。”

  ムハンマド・イブン＝アブドゥッラーフ (571–632) said by 632 at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “‘A’ishah said : We came to Medina and stayed with Banu al-Harith b. al-Khazraj. She said : I swear by Allah, I was swinging between two date-palms. Then my mother came, and made me come down; and I had my hair up to the ears. The transmitter then mentioned the rest of the tradition.”

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

• “Gloria summa tibi, laus et benedictio, Christe, Qui praestas famulis haec bona grata tuis.”

  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. 19–20 (tr. Wendy Pfeffer, 1985)

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.

• “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 …