Marie de France Quotes

• Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

  Marie de France

  Men, Sexist, Violent

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• By men's words we know them.

  Marie de France

  Men, Knows

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

  Marie de France

  Thinking, World, Fool

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• 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.

  Marie de France

  Love, Loyalty, Mean

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• You have to endure what you can't change.

  Marie de France

  Endure, Can't Change

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

  Marie de France

  Poor Quality, Quality Of Life, Results

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• Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

  Marie de France

  Desire, Hazards, Blind

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

  Marie de France

  Love, Loyalty, Fake People

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• Whoever has received knowledge
  and eloquence in speech from God
  should not be silent or secretive
  but demonstrate it willingly.
  When a great good is widely heard of,
  then, and only then, does it bloom,
  and when that good is praised by man,
  it has spread its blossoms.

  Marie de France

  Men, Doe, Speech

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• But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

  Marie de France

  Heart, Heart To Heart, Persons

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

  Marie de France

  Should, Wiser, Scorn

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• 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.

  Marie de France

  Loyalty, Men, Ends

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

  Marie de France

  Believe, Men, Foolish

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• 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.

  Marie de France

  Love Is, Lovers, Beloved

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

  Marie de France

  Rich, Poor, Rich And Poor

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

  Marie de France

  Love Is, Serious Business, Jest

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

  Marie de France

  Stories, Want, Ought

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

  Marie de France

  Tunes, Tales, Know How

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

  Marie de France

  Bullying, Bully, Threat

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

  Marie de France

  Wheels, Never Forget, Fortune

  Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult

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• Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

  Marie de France

  Lips, Speak

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  Marie de France

  Anger, Wrath, Wish

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.218, The Floating Press

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• Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

  Marie de France

  Names, Letters, Firsts

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

  Marie de France

  Fashion, Past, Stories

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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• 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 gentleman

  Marie de France

  Knights, Gentleman, Gone

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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