Quotes by Marguerite de Navarre

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Man cannot fully control his heart and cannot by his own will force it to love or hate.

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The hardest sufferings are the sufferings of love.

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The most ignorant turns out to be the one who thinks he knows everything.

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Sweet is not the revenge that kills the enemy, but that which preserves the life of the true friend.

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Stronger than anything are those who direct their energies to doing good.

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The elderly are used to thinking that they are always wiser than the generation that comes after them.

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He who does good to others brings joy to himself.

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The hardest thing for man is to deal with anger and anger.

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A man really knows something, when he is convinced that he knows nothing.

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The man who is known for his evil inclinations will always be open to suspicion.

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Anger has more power over a woman than love, especially if this woman has a noble and proud heart.

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Inconstancy is always reprehensible.

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There is no fire without smoke, but I have often seen smoke where there was no fire.

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If it turns out that the one you fell in love with is like two drops of water to you and wants everything you want too, you will not love her in reality, but only yourself.

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How reckless is the man who, in addition to the good he has, seeks other goods. Unsatisfied with what he has and in pursuit of something more, he also loses what he has.

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Love is blind and is capable of blinding man to such an extent that the one that seems the most secure turns out to be the most slippery.

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Stupid people are ready to look for evil anywhere, only where it actually is, no.

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Anything can be endured, but not the rose.

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Crime is not punished, stupidity is.

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True love and ingenuity sometimes come from those we least expect.

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True love recognizes no commandments and covenants.

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I only know how strong and true an attraction is when I put it to the test. And I had the intention of testing who I wanted to find incessantly: he is a noble-hearted, loyal man, whose love time will not stop. That's why I asked my good parents: let me wait a year or two more, if possible, let me find the life-long brotherhood that has already been the cause of so many people's grief.

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Women are killed by jealousy and anger, without knowing what they are dying of; men, on the other hand, with a clever head, search for the truth, and if they have known it with common sense, then they show their great valor, as did this young nobleman, who, realizing that he had caused his beloved's trouble, showed even at the cost of his life how much he loved her.