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Said in the 900s
“A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts.”
Al-Farabi (870–951) said by 951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)
“Il sommo discernimento relativo all'energia (kuṇḍalinī) comporta dunque tredici tappe. E in tutti i trattati del Trika, Śiva stesso vi fa allusione. (3)”
Somānanda (875–925) said by 925 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Disse Gesù: "Il mondo terreno è un ponte creato per servir da passaggio verso la vita ultima. Dunque pensate ad attraversarlo, e non abbellitelo nell’intento di rimanervi". (Il nutrimento dei cuori, Qût âlQulûb)”
Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996) said by 996 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Patience is a true means for reaching God. In patience the soul rejoices spiritual bliss and kinship with the Beloved. This is stage when the seeker of God heartily welcomes afflictions which appear on the way to Him”
Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996) said by 996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Il sé è la mente. (III.1; 1999)”
Vasugupta (860–925) said by 925 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forse ero assorta in pensieri d'amore | quando chiusi gli occhi? | Lui comparve. | Se avessi saputo che era un sogno | non mi sarei svegliata.”
Ono no Komachi (825–900) said by 900 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Preghiamo e veneriamo le reliquie dei martiri e dei confessori al fine di adorare colui di cui essi sono testimoni è confessori. (dall'enciclica Cum conventus esset, 675)”
Papa Giovanni XV (1000–996) said by 996 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yumeji ni wa Ashi mo yasumezu Kayoedo mo Utsutsu ni hitome Misbigoto wa arazu”
Ono no Komachi (825–900) said by 900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Στρατηγός ἐστιν ὁ τοῦ ὑπὸ χεῖρα στρατιωτικοῦ θέματος κορυφαίος ἄρχων, | ἐκ βασιλέως μὲν προχειριζόμενος.”
Leo VI the Wise (866–912) said by 912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Constitution 1: Tactics and the General, sect. 10 (tr. George Dennis, 2010)
“My wish it is that you should always provide the destitute with food.”
Æthelstan (895–939) said by 939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ordinance Relating to Charities, quoted in Tom Holland, Athelstan: The Making of England (2016), p. 71
“Laudes Christo redempti voce modulemur supplici ...”
Notker the Stammerer (840–912) said by 912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by R. F. Littledale, in Lyra Messianica (1864), p. 331; The People's Hymnal (1867), no. 116; Resurgit (1879), p. 42
“For already I have learned, that a general's fame stands on a pile of dry bones Of what were once the people.”
Ts'ao Sung (830–902) said by 902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tsao Sung, War. In: Yu Kuan-ying (1954) "Book Review Peace Throwgh the Ages" in People's China, (1954) nr 14. July 16, 1954.-->
“It was narrated that Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah, said: "The Messenger of Allah said: 'There are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the Fire: The group that invades India (taghzoo al-hind), and the group that will be with 'Isa bin Maryam, peace be upon him.'”
Al-Nasa'i (829–915) said by 915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«l'amore che ciascuno nutriva per i fiori (i quali sarebbe andato a cercare in terre inaccessibili e inospitali) ed il coraggio di smarrirsi anche fra una bufera di tenebre per correre a contemplare la luna sorgente in un orizzonte di luce e di poesia». (citato in Arcangeli, p. 51, nota)”
Ki no Tsurayuki (866–945) said by 945 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Io sono Colui che io amo, e Colui che io amo è me: Siamo due spiriti nello stesso corpo. Se vedi me, vedi Lui, E se vedi Lui, vedi tutti e due. (p. 245)”
Al-Hallaj (858–922) said by 922 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A composite whose body is of light, But all its soul and spirit of fiery strain; A star that hath its setting in the mouth, But ever rises on the cheeks again”
Daqiqi (1000–977) said by 977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Colui che si identifica con il Sé universale e sa 'che tutto questo è la mia gloria', rimane nella 'śivaità' anche di fronte alle determinazioni prevalenti [la dualità]. (4.1.12)”
Utpaladeva (900–950) said by 950 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] anche fuori della Bibbia si danno fonti di conoscenza, e queste sono soltanto due: una, che precede, la ragione; l'altra, che segue, la tradizione.”
Saadya Gaon (882–942) said by 942 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do harm to our kindred, as it is instituted for the benefit and welfare of the human race, and God imposed on physicians the oath not to compose mortiferous remedies.”
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (866–925) said by 925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“John... Bishop Speyer, Otger, he ordered to be seized and whipped, and held, though with difficulty, for some time with him, then he soon set him free, in the hope of obtaining the emperor's forgiveness, but in this hope he was deceived by God's command, for on the second ides of May he departed from earthly life.”
Pope John XII (937–964) said by 964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more inwardly pure a man is, the higher his rank and the nobler his station, so much the more arduously he labours, with sincerer performance and a great fear of God.”
Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi (950–990) said by 990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source