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Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
As two unhappy people often will, the one sought out the other.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
They cry sour grapes when the object of their desires is beyond their grasp.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
Blessed is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.
Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
Marriage is an estate of long duration, and one which should not be entered into lightly or without the approval of our closest friends and relatives.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, ... a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
Man is wise ... when he recognises no greater enemy than himself.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
To me it seems much better to love a woman as a woman, than to make her one's idol, as many do. For my part, I am convinced that it is better to use than to abuse.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
Love is a disease that kills nobody, but one whose time has come.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and of virtue than of the reality.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
When one has a good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)