Zitate von Margarete von Navarra

„Der Mensch ist weise … wenn er keinen größeren Feind als sich selbst erkennt.“

—  Margarete von Navarra

„When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Fourth Day, Novel XL
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„They cry sour grapes when the object of their desires is beyond their grasp.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Ilz font semblant de n'aymer poinct les raisins quand ilz sont si haults, qu'ilz ne les peuvent cueillir.
Sixth Day, Novel LIII (trans. P. A. Chilton)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„As two unhappy people often will, the one sought out the other.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Un malheureux cherche l'autre.
Third Day, Novel XXI (trans. P. A. Chilton)
Variant translation: Misery loves company.
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Second Day, Novel XIX (trans. W. K. Kelly)
Variant translation by Samuel Putnam in Marguerite of Navarre (1935), p. 53:
Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, … a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Sixth Day, Novel LI (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„Man is wise … when he recognises no greater enemy than himself.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Third Day, Novel XXX
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Fourth Day, Novel XXXVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Fifth Day, Novel XLII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

First Day, Novel VIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„To me it seems much better to love a woman as a woman, than to make her one's idol, as many do. For my part, I am convinced that it is better to use than to abuse.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Second Day, Novel XII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„Marriage is an estate of long duration, and one which should not be entered into lightly or without the approval of our closest friends and relatives.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Mariage est un état de si longue durée, qu'il ne doit être commencé légèrement, ne sans l'opinion de nos meilleurs amis et parents.
Fourth Day, Novel XL (trans. P. A. Chilton)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

„He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.“

—  Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron

Third Day, Novel XXVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)