"But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns……" — Marie de France
"But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly."
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21 Quotes by Marie de France
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
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Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
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We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your…
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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell…
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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
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Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things…
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For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before…
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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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