Marie de France quotes

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. (Marie de France)
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! View quote
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The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. View quote
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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. View quote
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By men's words we know them. View quote
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Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life. View quote
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Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises. View quote
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Whoever believes in a man is very foolish. View quote
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. View quote
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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips. View quote
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A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. (Marie de France)
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. View quote
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Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality. View quote
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Anyone who intends to present a new story must approach the problem in a new way and speak so persuasively that the tale brings pleasure to people. View quote
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Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. View quote
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You have to endure what you can't change. View quote
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. View quote
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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. View quote
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We love what we should scorn if we were wiser. View quote
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The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them. View quote
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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. (Marie de France)
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings. View quote
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But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. View quote
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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune. View quote
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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. View quote
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