Marguerite de Navarre quotes
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“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach”
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“Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "L'Heptameron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre (Second Day, Novel XIX; 1558), as translated by Samuel Putnam in his book "Marguerite of Navarre" (p. 53), 1935.
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“Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.”
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“I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, First Day, Novel VIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
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“Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
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“Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
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“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
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“I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "L'Heptaméron". Sixth Day, Novel LI (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
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“Spite will make a woman do more than love.”
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“God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.
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“When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.”
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XL, 1558.
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