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Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word.
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
Anyone who has received from God the gift of knowledge and true eloquence has a duty not to remain silent
Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.
We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.
You have to endure what you can't change.
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.
Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
By men's words we know them.
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
