Marie de France

Biography

Quotes

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
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