Quotes from L'Heptaméron — Marguerite de Navarre
1492–1549 France
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Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
As two unhappy people often will, the one sought out the other.
They cry sour grapes when the object of their desires is beyond their grasp.
Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.
I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.
Man is wise ... when he recognises no greater enemy than himself.
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