Margaret of Valois - Love Quotes

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

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

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

Margaret of Valois
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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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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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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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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