Quotes by Marie De France

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may...

#Friendship

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his...

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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such...

#Discretion

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not...

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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first...

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Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was...

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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

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Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised...

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For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him...

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