1.
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.
Margaret of Valois
2.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Margaret of Valois
3.
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
Margaret of Valois
4.
Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Margaret of Valois
5.
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.
Margaret of Valois
6.
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois
7.
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
Margaret of Valois
8.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Margaret of Valois
9.
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
Margaret of Valois
10.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Margaret of Valois
11.
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.
Margaret of Valois
12.
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
Margaret of Valois
13.
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.
Margaret of Valois
14.
Blushes cannot be counterfeited.
Margaret of Valois
15.
Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.
Margaret of Valois
16.
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.
Margaret of Valois
17.
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.
Margaret of Valois
18.
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Margaret of Valois
19.
The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.
Margaret of Valois
20.
Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd
Margaret of Valois
21.
envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
Margaret of Valois
22.
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
Margaret of Valois
23.
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.
Margaret of Valois
24.
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.
Margaret of Valois
25.
Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.
Margaret of Valois
26.
Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.
Margaret of Valois
27.
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
Margaret of Valois
28.
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.
Margaret of Valois
29.
distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.
Margaret of Valois
30.
Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.
Margaret of Valois
31.
Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.
Margaret of Valois
32.
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.
Margaret of Valois
33.
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Margaret of Valois
