Margaret of Valois Quotes

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• There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

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  Angel, Devil, Encounters

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• Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

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  Temptation, Moral Strength, Tests

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• The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

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  Joy, Cups, Empty

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• The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

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  Danger, Dangerous, Venom

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• There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

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  Enemy, One Day, Use

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• Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

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  Love, Romantic, Wise

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• Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

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  Delicacy, Virtue, Genuine

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• distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

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  Hatred, Distrust

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• There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

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  Reality, Appearance, Virtue

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• It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

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  Love, Courage, War

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• God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

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  Heart, Men, Courtship

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• Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

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• We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

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  Flesh, Bones, Virtue

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• Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

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  Hypocrisy, May, Austerity

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• Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

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  God, Science, Steps

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• Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

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  Joy, Soul, Sorrow

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• Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

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  Slave, Force, Duty

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• It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

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  Art, Appreciate, Produce

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• Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

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  Disappointment, Suffering, Credulity

  "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

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• There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

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  Running, Husband, Winning

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• A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

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  Honor, Should, Suspects

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• envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

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  Hate, Eye, Envy

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• No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

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  Doe, God Love, Not Perfect

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• We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

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  Laughing, Nonsense, Genuine

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