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Margaret of Valois Biography

Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), commonly Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became queen consort of Navarre and later also of France.

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Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Like, Moral, Moral Strength, Temptation, Temptations, Tests

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

Flesh, Bones, Virtue, Perfectly, Virtuous

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.

Counterfeited, Blushes

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

Husband, Long, Run, Running, Win, Winning

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Creatures, Doe, God, God Love, Loves, Not Perfect

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.

Day, Fools, Love, Making, Romantic, Wise

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

Appearance, Reality, Virtue

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

Gold, Heart, Human, Humans, Thing

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

Envy, Eye, Fascinate, Hate, Hatred, Things

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

Appreciate, Art, Educated, Produce

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

Austerity, Extreme, Hypocrisy, May, Under

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.

Duty, Force, Servitude, Slave

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.

Angel, Devil, Encounter, Encounters, Nothing, Suit

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Adversity, Crowds, Dwells, Prosperity, Solitary, Success

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Courage, Fortress, Love, Parleys, War

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

God, Science, Steps, Creation, Length

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

Danger, Dangerous, Hidden, Venom

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Cutting, Doe, Hopes, Love, Suitor, Suitors

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

Forerunner, Forerunners, Hatred, Mistrust

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

Age, Extend, Face, Heart, Wrinkles

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