1.
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach
Marguerite de Navarre
2.
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
Marguerite de Navarre
3.
Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
Marguerite de Navarre
4.
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.
Marguerite de Navarre
5.
Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.
Marguerite de Navarre
6.
Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.
Marguerite de Navarre
7.
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
Marguerite de Navarre
8.
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
Marguerite de Navarre
9.
When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
Marguerite de Navarre
10.
Spite will make a woman do more than love.
Marguerite de Navarre
11.
I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
Marguerite de Navarre
