Margaret Of Valois Quotes

#1. Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

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

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#3. Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

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#4. Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

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#5. Gold adulterates one thing only,
the human heart.

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#6. Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

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#7. Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

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#8. The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

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#9. We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

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#10. There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

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#11. Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

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#12. Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

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#13. Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

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

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

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#16. Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

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

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#18. Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

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#19. It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

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#20. Distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

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#21. I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

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#22. Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

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#23. There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

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#24. 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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#25. Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

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#26. Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

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#27. Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

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

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