"Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world."

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Source : "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.

Marguerite de Navarre

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