Marguerite de Navarre

I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.

— Marguerite de Navarre

To me it seems much better to love a woman as a woman, than to make her one's idol, as many do. For my part, I am convinced that it is better to use than to abuse.

— Marguerite de Navarre

No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.

— Marguerite de Navarre

He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.

— Marguerite de Navarre

Man is wise ... when he recognises no greater enemy than himself.

— Marguerite de Navarre

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

— Marguerite de Navarre

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

— Marguerite de Navarre

Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

— Marguerite de Navarre

Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.

— Marguerite de Navarre

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

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

— Marguerite de Navarre