Confessing Quotes by Marguerite de Navarre

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

— Marguerite de Navarre

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

— Marguerite de Navarre

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

— Marguerite de Navarre

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

— Marguerite de Navarre

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

— 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

Spite will make a woman do more than love.

— Marguerite de Navarre

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

— 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

Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.

— 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