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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.

— Marguerite de Navarre L'Heptaméron (1558)

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Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.

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Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

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As two unhappy people often will, the one sought out the other.

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They cry sour grapes when the object of their desires is beyond their grasp.

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Blessed is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

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