19 quotes found
Medieval French poet · French
Medieval French poet
“Amur n'est pruz se n'est egals.”
“Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.”
“The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.”
“Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.”
“I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.”
“Whoever has received knowledgeand eloquence in speech from Godshould not be silent or secretivebut demonstrate it willingly.When a great good is widely heard of,then, and only then, does it bloom,a...”
“For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.”
“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 a...”
“There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.”
“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”
“Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.”
“Si est del riche orguillus:Ja del povre n'avra merciPur sa pleinte ne pur sun cri;Mes se cil s'en peüst vengier,Dunc le verreit l'um suzpleier.”
“Mes ki ne mustre s'enfertéA peine en peot aver santé:Amur est plaie dedenz cors,E si ne piert nïent defors.Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,Pur ceo que de nature vient.”
“Ki divers cunte veut traitier,Diversement deit comencierE parler si rainablementK'il seit pleisibles a la gent.”
“Tutes les dames de une tereVendreit il meuz d'amer requereQuë un fol de sun pan tolir;Kar cil volt an eire ferir.”
“D'euls deus fu il tut autresiCume del chevrefoil esteitKi a la codre se perneit:Quant il s'i est laciez e prisEnsemble poënt bien durer;Mes ki puis les volt deservrer,Li codres muert hastivementE l...”
“Tel cinc cent parolent d'amur,N'en sevent pas le pior tur,Ne que est loiax druerie.”
“Se l'uns des amans est loiax,E li autre est jalox è faus,Si est amors entr'ex fausée,Ne puet avoir lunge durée.Amors n'a soing de compagnun,Boin amors n'est se de Dex nun,De cors en cors, de cuer e...”
