Margaret Of Valois Quotes & Sayings

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. — Margaret Of Valois

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. — Margaret Of Valois

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. — Margaret Of Valois

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. — Margaret Of Valois

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul. — Margaret Of Valois

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures. — Margaret Of Valois

The cup of joy is heaviest when empty. — Margaret Of Valois

Gold adulterates one thing only,
the human heart. — Margaret Of Valois

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. — Margaret Of Valois

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. — Margaret Of Valois

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. — Margaret Of Valois

Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. — Margaret Of Valois

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Margaret Of Valois

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. — Margaret Of Valois

Distrust ... is the beginning of hatred. — Margaret Of Valois

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. — Margaret Of Valois

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. — Margaret Of Valois

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. — Margaret Of Valois

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd — Margaret Of Valois

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. — Margaret Of Valois

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. — Margaret Of Valois

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. — Margaret Of Valois

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred. — Margaret Of Valois

Blushes cannot be counterfeited. — Margaret Of Valois

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. — Margaret Of Valois

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. — Margaret Of Valois

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. — Margaret Of Valois

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force. — Margaret Of Valois