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• “E io Ti prego, buon Gesù, che come Tu mi hai graziosamente dato di bere con piacere della tua conoscenza, così voglia Tu benignamente concedermi di attingere un giorno a Te, la fontana di tutta la saggezza, e di comparire per sempre davanti al Tuo Volto. (libro V)”

  Beda il Venerabile (672–735) said by 735 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Diecimila cavalli col cuore trafitto esalano desolazione. (Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della storia, traduzione di Roberto Sorgo, Gribaudo, 2018, p. 85. ISBN 9788858016572)”

  Wang Wei (699–761) said by 761 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Al momento del giudizio staremo davanti a Cristo e ai suoi angeli ed ognuno riferirà ciò che ha fatto nel corpo di bene o di male e riceverà da lui o il regno dell'illimitata beatitudine per le sue azioni, o per le sue scelleratezze la fine della dannazione eterna. (dal XVI Sinodo di Toledo, 574).”

  Papa Sergio I (650–701) said by 701 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and body. Verily, Allâh will ask us about the halâl things we enjoyed, so what about the harâm!”

  Hasan al-Basri (642–728) said by 728 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Kings can tolerate everything but three practices– revealing a secret, an outrage on his harem, or a blow aimed at his power.”

  Al-Mansur (713–775) said by 775 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Moaning and wailing have ten kinds of which nine are full of showoff and only one kind is full of reality.”

  Sufyan al-Thawri (716–784) said by 784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dal suolo della terra diverse spine acute spuntano da varie radici; nel cuore dell'uomo, invece, le punture di tutti i vizi provengono da un'unica radice, la cupidigia.”

  Ambrogio Autperto (730–784) said by 784 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The person who is aware of the present situations of his time, will never get involved with falsifying and wrongdoing.”

  Ja'far al-Sadiq (699–765) said by 765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “长风破浪会有时， 直挂云帆济沧海。”

  Li Bai (701–762) said by 762 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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.

• “Do not destroy a church, synagogue, or fire temple with respect to which an agreement has been concluded with you, and do not permit the construction of a new church or fire temple. Do not drag the lamb to its place of slaughter of sharpen the knife over the head of the animal. Do not combine two prayers without an excuse.”

  Umar II (681–720) said by 720 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is nothing wrong in a man having sexual relations with his Zoroastrian slave-girl.”

  Said ibn al-Musayyib (634–715) said by 715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Said ibn al-Musayyib. Safiıd b. al-Musayyab, quoted from Yohanan Friedmann, Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2003.— pp. 176-178

• “You have asked one who knows. The hearts of the people are with you, but their swords are with the Banu Umayyah. The decision will come from heaven, and Allah will do what He wishes.”

  Al-Farazdaq (640–728) said by 728 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “Non vi è albero del Bodhi, | né sostegno di lucido specchio | poiché tutto è vuoto, | dove può posarsi la polvere? (p. 21)”

  Huìnéng (638–713) said by 713 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Abba Arsenius for God’s sake conversed with no one,”

  Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) said by 700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be doubted. For if at God’s word water gushed from hard rock in the wilderness-yes, and from an ass’s jawbone when Samson was thirsty -why should it seem incredible that healing medicine should distill from the relics of saints”

  John of Damascus (675–749) said by 749 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Relics: The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius: History, Mysticism, and the Catholic Church, by Joan Carroll Cruz, 1984 <!--, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Indiana, ISBN 0879737018 ISBN 9780879…

• “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

• “白日依山尽， 黄河入海流。 欲穷千里目， 更上一层楼。”

  Wang Zhihuan (688–742) said by 742 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.

• “Insieme corriamo a raccogliere gli amati fiori del prato che è proprio della Madre di Dio.”

  Germano di Costantinopoli (634–732) said by 732 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source