Ceili D

“A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?”
― Marguerite de Navarre, HEPTAMERON

“For there’s nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he’s clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.”
― Marguerite de Navarre, The Heptameron

“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
― Marguerite de Navarre