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Marguerite de Navarre
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“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”
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“Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...”
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“Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.”
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“Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.”
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“People pretend ... not to like grapes when they are too high for them to reach.”
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“I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.”
Marguerite de Navarre, French queen, poet, writer, supporter of humanists and reformers
(1492 - 1549)
Also known as Marguerite d’Angoulême or Marguerite d’Alençon.