Marguerite de Navarre Quotes

• People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Kids, Hard Work, People

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• Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Sin, Ashamed, Confessing

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Wise, Men, Enemy

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• Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Blessed, Evil, Doe

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLII (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 Navarre

  Men, Proud, Deceived

  "L'Heptaméron". Sixth Day, Novel LI (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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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 Navarre

  Men, Perfect, World

  "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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• Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Jealousy, Fire, Flames

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Lovers, Helping, Madmen

  "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.

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• Spite will make a woman do more than love.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Spite

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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 Navarre

  Love, Saws, Heard

  "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, First Day, Novel VIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Good Day, Years, Year One

  "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XL, 1558.

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