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• “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

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

  Bhartrihari (570–651) said by 651 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

• “Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Ibi etenim foeda, ibi pulchra nostra cognoscimus.”

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

  Recorded in: Morals in the Book of Job, 553d, as translated in Cultural Performances in Medieval France (2007), p. 129

• “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.

• “Vox, philomela, tua curarum semina pellit, Recreat et blandis anxia corda sonis.”

  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. 5–6 (tr. Gerald Brenan, 1951)

• “They ask you, [O Muḥammad], what they should spend. Say, "Whatever you spend of good is [to be] for parents and relatives and orphans and the needy and the traveler. And whatever you do of good - indeed, Allāh is Knowing of it.”

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

• “O my grief! Your life will be violently wrenched from you and that is more wounding to my heart and harsher to my soul.”

  Zaynab bint Ali (626–684) said by 684 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 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

• “Εἰπέ, θεά, κρυφίων ἐπιμάρτυρα λύχνον ἐρώτων καὶ νύχιον πλωτῆρα θαλασσοπόρων ὑμεναίων καὶ γάμον ἀχλυόεντα, τὸν οὐκ ἴδεν ἄφθιτος Ἠώς, καὶ Σηστὸν καὶ Ἄβυδον, ὅπῃ γάμον ἔννυχον Ἡροῦς.”

  Musaeus Grammaticus (500–600) said by 600 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Tr. George Chapman (1616)

• “A notable quotation is when Qasim asked his Uncle Hussain, if his name would be amongst the names of those who would be blessed with martyrdom in the battle for Islam at Karbala. His Uncle replied asking, "How do you find death Qasim? Qasim replied, Oh my Uncle; I do not fear death. Death for Islam will be sweeter for me than honey.”

  Qasim ibn Hasan (667–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Through idleness, lusts and harmful thoughts grow, but through the exercise of labor, vices are likewise diminished.”

  Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 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 …

• “I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak. I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.”

  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. 124

• “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

• “A monastery is an earthly heaven.”

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

• “Ouve o que dizes. Faz o que pregas.”

  Papa Gregório I (540–604) said by 604 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The indefiniteness beyond being”

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

• “…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