Margaret of Valois Quotes

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Since love teaches how to trick the tricksters, how much reason have we to fear it — we who are poor simple creatures!

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Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

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Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure.

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When one has a good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

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I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing.

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We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom.

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Men are so accustomed to lie, that one can not take too many precautions before trusting them — if they are to be trusted at all.

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It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers.

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There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils.

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We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

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There is in us more of the appearance of sense and of virtue than of the reality.

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Hypocrites are wicked: they hide their defects with so much care, that their hearts are poisoned by them.

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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

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Love is a disease that kills nobody, but one whose time has come.

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The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable.

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Extreme concupiscence may be found under an extreme austerity.

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Pleasures are sins: we regret to offend God; but, then, pleasures please us.

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The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value.

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God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

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No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

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There are few husbands whom the wife can not win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

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Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

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There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

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A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

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