“Love makes a woman beautiful –
but beauty does not have such power, beauty cannot make a woman worthy of love.”

—  Walther von der Vogelweide

Liebe machet schoene wîp:
desn mac diu schoene niht getuon, sin machet niemer lieben lîp.
"Herzeliebez vrowelîn", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 121.

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Liebe machet schoene wîp: desn mac diu schoene niht getuon, sin machet niemer lieben lîp.

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