“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 , book Heptaméron

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

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