Marie de France
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!Collection: Jealousy
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.Collection: Love
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.Collection: Faith
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.Collection: Anger
Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.Collection: Men
By men's words we know them.Collection: Men
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.Collection: Thinking
Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of lifeCollection: Poor Quality
You have to endure what you can't change.Collection: Endure
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.Collection: Desire
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.Collection: Heart
We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.Collection: Should
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.Collection: Love Is
Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.Collection: Believe
The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.Collection: Rich
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.Collection: Stories
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.Collection: Love Is
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.Collection: Tunes
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.Collection: Wheels
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.Collection: Bullying
Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.Collection: Lips
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.Collection: Names
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.Collection: Fashion
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentlemanCollection: Knights