Marguerite de Navarre Quotes

Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

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

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

Spite will make a woman do more than love.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.