Love is a disease that kills nobody, but one whose time has come.
Attributed quotes — Marguerite de Navarre
1492–1549 France
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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)
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)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
He who knows his incapacity, knows something.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Extreme concupiscence may be found under an extreme austerity.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
It is difficult to repent of what gives us pleasure.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The true and the false speak the same language.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Pleasures are sins: we regret to offend God; but, then, pleasures please us.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
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