The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Many small make a great.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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