Marie De France Quotes

#1. Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

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#2. For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.

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#3. For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

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#4. Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

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#5. Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

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#6. But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

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#7. Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

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#8. A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

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#9. Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

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#10. Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.

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#11. Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

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#12. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

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#13. Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

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#14. You have to endure what you can't change.

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#15. The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

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#16. Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

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#17. Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

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#18. The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

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#19. There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

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#20. He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

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#21. In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

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#22. Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

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#23. I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

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#24. By men's words we know them.

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#25. Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

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#26. But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

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#27. The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

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#28. We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

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