Marguerite de Navarre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Hard Work #People #Vines
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
Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Wise #Men #Enemy
I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Love #Saws #Lovers
Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Blessed #Evil #Doe
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
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Sin #Ashamed #Wrongdoing
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
Spite will make a woman do more than love.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Spite
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Lovers #Helping #Madmen
When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

#Good Day #Years #Year One

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