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“Abu Dawud 1:142 - "Do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl”
Sunan Abi Dawud (817–888) said by 888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tell you, there is no Buddha, no Dharma, no cultivation, no realization. What are you trying to find this way as a shallow adherent? Blind people [who reify these concepts] are placing a head upon a head [imposing objects of seeking upon spontaneous reality].”
Linji Yixuan (850–867) said by 867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God, stripped of all its furnishing, exposed to the plundering of pagans.”
Alcuin (740–804) said by 804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the king of Northumbria, after the Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793), as quoted in Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (2021)
“On the evidence of Baladhuri's account of the conquest of Sind, there were certainly massacres in the towns of Sind when the Arabs first arrived.”
Al-Baladhuri (820–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. E. Bosworth. Bosworth (1), p. 43. Bosworth, C. E. [1] “The Concept of Dhimma in Early Islam.” In Benjamin Brande and B. Lewis, eds., Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire. 2 vols. New York, 1982. quoted in Ibn Wa…
“When once death has arrived, it does not return. So ever remain ready for it.”
Shaqiq al-Balkhi (died 810) said by 810 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The book is silent as long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. He never interrupts you if you are engaged but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. He is a friend who never deceives or falters you, and he is a companion who does not grow tired of you.”
Al-Jahiz (775–869) said by 869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not hasten towards a fruit that is not ripe yet for it has its time! …Trust in His (God's) experience in your affairs and do not hurry for your needs at the beginning of your time that your heart may be distressed and despair may overcome you!”
Hasan al-Askari (845–874) said by 874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If my soul were in my hands, I would have released it.”
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780–855) said by 855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, mistress of the mansion in Firk, And mistress of the Sultan and his kingdom For God's sake, spare to slay me For I am neither Daylam nor Turk.”
Harun al-Rashid (766–809) said by 809 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“身無疑鳳雙飛翼, 心有靈犀一點通。”
Li Shangyin (813–858) said by 858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Dictionary of Chinese Popular Sayings and Famous Quotes by Chan Sin-wai (HK: The Commercial Press, 2021), p. 241
“Abu Wa'il narrated: "Ali said to Abu Al-Hayyaj Al-Asadi: 'I am dispatching you with what the Prophet dispatched me: "That you not leave an elevated grave without leveling it, nor an image without erasing it.”
Al-Tirmidhi (825–892) said by 892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam.”
John Scotus Eriugena (800–877) said by 877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Annotationes in Marciam, no. 64; translation from John Joseph O’Meara Eriugena (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988) p. 30.
“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.”
Al-Kindi (801–873) said by 873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fi’l-falsafa al-ula ("On First Philosophy") in M. A. Abu Rida (ed.) Rasa’ il al-Kindi al-falsafiyya (Cairo, 1950), p. 103; trans. R. Walzer in Greek into Arabic (Oxford, 1962), p. 12; reported in Albert Hourani, A Histo…
“寥落古行宫，宫花寂寞红。 白头宫女在，闲坐说玄宗。”
Yuan Zhen (779–831) said by 831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At an Old Palace", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 128
“Non patitur cunctas angustia carminis huius Pulei virtutes celeri comprendere versu. Hoc apud Indorum tanti constare peritos Fertur, apud Gallos quanti valet Indica nigri Congeries piperis. Quis iam dubitare sinetur Hac herba plures leniri posse labores, Quam pretiis inhianter emit ditissima tantis Gens hebenoque auroque fluens et mira volenti Quaeque ferens mundo?”
Walafrid Strabo (808–849) said by 849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Three things take the slave to God's pleasure:”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have not served God for fear of Hell, for I should be like a wretched hireling, If I did it for fear: nor for love of Paradise, for I should be a bad servant if I served for the sake of what was given, but I have served Him only for the love of Him and out of desire for Him.”
Rabia of Basra (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophiam, obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum, vescor, poto libens, rithmizans invoco Musas, dormisco stertens oro Deum vigilans. Conscia mens scelerum deflet peccamina vitae: parcite vos misero, Christe Maria, viro.”
Sedulius Scottus (801–875) said by 875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by James Carney, in Robert McNally (ed.) Old Ireland (New York: Fordham University Press, 1965) p. 250. Other translations: Helen Waddell, Medieval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable & Co, 1929) p. 123 · George …
“Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king.”
Babak Khorramdin (798–838) said by 838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay? Not till earth, and not till heaven Pass away.”
Stephen the Hymnographer (725–802) said by 802 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 153.
“God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ich wünsche mir, dass die Männer, die nach mir kommen, meiner gedenken als eines Mannes, der in guter Verfassung war." - Letzte Worte, 26. Oktober 899”
Alfred der Große (849–899) said by 899 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source