"But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person……" — Marie de France
"But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth."
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Marie de France
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21 Quotes by Marie de France
Marie de France has 21 quotes on this site.
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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 Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
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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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We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries,…
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Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact…
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Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good…
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How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter…
— Pope Francis
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We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are…
— Esther Perel
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"Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her…
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company;…
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so…
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
— Edmund Waller
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Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
— Thomas a Kempis
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