Quotes by Marie De France - Page 1

By men's words we know them.
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Men
Knows
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You have to endure what you can't change.
Marie De France / Poet
Can't Change
Endure
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Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.
Marie De France / Poet
Men
Believe
Foolish
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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
Marie De France / Poet
Lips
Speak
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We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
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Scorn
Should
Wiser
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The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
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Fool
Impress
Thinking
World
Loudly
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Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
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Blind
Desire
Hazards
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
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Jest
Love Is
Serious Business
Love Business Love Is
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A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
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Bully
Bullying
Threat
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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
Marie De France / Poet
Know How
Tales
Tunes
Vary
Divers
Tune
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But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
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Fortune
Never Forget
Wheels
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The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.
Marie De France / Poet
Poor
Rich
Rich And Poor
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Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
Marie De France / Poet
Men
Sexist
Violent
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Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life
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Poor Quality
Quality Of Life
Results
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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
Marie De France / Poet
Assured
Lays
Counts
Fable
Whosoever
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Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.
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Ought
Stories
Want
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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
Marie De France / Poet
Firsts
Letters
Names
Letter
Spell
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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Marie De France / Poet
Authority
Fashion
Past
Stories
Divers
Fashions
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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
Marie De France / Poet
Heart
Heart To Heart
Persons
Discreetly
Love Heart Nothing
Passes
Sweetly
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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 / Poet
Friendship
Jealousy
Jealous
Love
Loyalty
Fake People
Love Is
Friendship Love Love Is
False
Last
Slain
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie De France / Poet
Loyalty
Men
Discretion
Ends
Hidden Things
Faith Men Great
Pretend
Divers
Folk
Great Show
Hidden
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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
Marie De France / Poet
Gentleman
Gone
Knights
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie De France / Poet
Love
Loyalty
Truth
All Things
Dare
Matter
Mean
Sweetness
Loved
High
Means
Word
Loved One
Meddle
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For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.
Marie De France / Poet
Accord
Beloved
Love Is
Lovers
Love Love Is Bond
Bond
Lover
Constraint
Grant
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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
Marie De France / Poet
Anger
Heavy
Honour
Sinning
Wish
Wrath
Bear
Dearest
Fairest
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Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
Marie De France / Poet
Cry
Lamentation
Mourning
News
Tumult
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Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
Marie De France / Poet
Knowledge
Ancient
Best Art Me
Lay
Rehearse
Tale
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Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.
Marie De France / Poet
Men
Doe
Speech
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