"In times gone by there lived a Count……" — Marie de France
"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"
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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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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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