Margaret of Valois famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Romantic #Wise #Strong
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Disappointment #Men #Suffering
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Heart #Wrinkles #Age
Blushes cannot be counterfeited.
-- Margaret of Valois
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Reality #Appearance #Virtue
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Cutting #Doe #Suitors
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Danger #Dangerous #Venom
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Doe #God Love #Not Perfect
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Honor #Should
Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd
-- Margaret of Valois

#Success #Adversity #Crowds
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Love #War #Taken
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.
-- Margaret of Valois

#Temptation #Tests #Moral

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