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“處世若大夢，胡爲勞其生？”
Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime on Rising From a Drunken Slumber" (c. 750), in A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems (1976), p. 115
“My father is the wisdom of spontaneous awareness.My mother is the Ever-Excellent Lady, the space of all things....I sustain myself by consuming the concepts of duality.My purpose is the act of killing disturbing emotions.”
Padmasambhava (717–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava, (a book review) by Rebecca Radner, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Fall 1993
“Nag Bhat I led an army of 30,000-40,000 men mostly consisting of cavalry and infantry. He was a great military commander and organised his army by dividing his cavalry in parts on the flanks. The battle hardened infantry was positioned in the center with reserve cavalry and possibly war elephants in the back as a rearguard.”
Nagabhata I (750–780) said by 780 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
“Be careful to have truthful friends and try to obtain them, for they are your support when you are in welfare, and your advocator when you have misfortune.”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (699–765) said by 765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“移舟泊煙渚，日暮客愁新；野曠天低樹，江清月近人。”
Meng Haoran (690–740) said by 740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you like to be saint of God, then desire not the things of this world or the next. Empty yourself for God. Turn your face to Him so that He may turn to you and make you His saint.”
Ibrahim ibn Adham (718–776) said by 776 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobody seeks my help with a petition or offers an excuse that is more pressing than he, reminding me of a favor I did him so that it would be followed by its sister (i.e, one like it) and so good would be done to its asker because withholding of later things removes gratitude for earlier ones.”
Al-Mahdi (744–785) said by 785 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Al-Tabari
“少小離家老大回，鄉音無改鬢毛衰。 兒童相見不相識，笑問客從何處來。”
He Zhizhang (659–744) said by 744 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the people of the world sleep is more profitable than to keep awake, for then they keep off worldly discourses during sleep.”
Sufyan al-Thawri (716–784) said by 784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Αν θέλεις να γνωρίσεις τον Θεό, γνώρισε τον εαυτό σου.”
Ιωάννης ο Δαμασκηνός (675–749) said by 749 at the latest wikiquote:el, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the lands of the West have their eyes directed toward our humility; by them we are considered as a God upon earth.”
Pope Gregory II (669–731) said by 731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How do you know seeing the Son of Heaven is not a blessing? Why are you being sad about this?”
Wu Zetian (624–705) said by 705 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Turkish and Oghuz lords and people, hear! Unless the sky above collapses and the earth below is destroyed, O Turkish people, who could destroy and disrupt your state and laws?”
Bilge Qaghan (683–734) said by 734 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kurokami no Shira kami made to Musubiteshi Kokoro hitotsu wo Ima takame ya mo”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) said by 710 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds.”
Hasan al-Basri (642–728) said by 728 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let not your flight be in the winter, nor on the sabbath-day. (Translated to Modern English.)”
Saint Guthlac (674–715) said by 715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: D. C. O. Adams, (1901) The Saints and Missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon Era p 5. Oxford and London. A. R. Mowbray & Co.
“君不見青海頭 古來白骨無人收 新鬼煩冤舊鬼哭”
Du Fu (712–770) said by 770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the poem 兵車行. English translation from New Ghosts Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China (1998) by James Seymour and Richard Anderson
“... how they departed and hid themselves in mountains, caves, and in solitary, secluded places,”
Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) said by 700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Silence is among the doors to wisdom; it brings about love and is a proof of all good things.":151”
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) said by 799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou hast succeeded to the throne, and didst not revile 'Ali, nor terrify The innocent man, nor follow the counsel of the evil-doer; Thou didst speak, and didst confirm what thou didst say by what Thou didst do, and every Muslim became well content.”
Kuthayyir (660–723) said by 723 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: translated by Edward. G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, 1909, p.235
“泛舟大河裏，積水窮天涯。 天波忽開拆，郡邑千萬家。 行復見城市，宛然有桑麻。 回瞻舊鄉國，淼漫連雲霞。”
Wang Wei (699–761) said by 761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source