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