Ifs Quote by Marie de France Download Open image “We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.” — Marie de France ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Love Scorn Should Wisdom Wiser
It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things… — Edmund Gibson Copy Share Image
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. — Thomas A Kempis Copy Share Image
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has received from God the gift of knowledge and true eloquence has a duty not to remain silent” — Marie de France Copy Share Image
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“But where is it written in the Gospel that we are instructed to hate anyone, however erroneous their beliefs might be?” — Marie de France Copy Share Image
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