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Christine de Pisan

• A wise man has said that there is nothing that wins over the hearts of a ruler's subjects more nor that draws them to their lord so much as when they find gentleness and kindness in him.
  - Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies
  Source: Pisan, Christine de. The Treasure of the City of Ladies. trans. Sarah Lawson, New York: Penguin Books, 1985. 74.
  
  
• Everyone ought to have pity on the sinner, for God does not wish his death, but wishes him to reform and to live; such a one has fallen into sin but afterwards may rise out of it and lead a just life.
  - Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies
  Source: Pisan, Christine de. The Treasure of the City of Ladies. trans. Sarah Lawson, New York: Penguin Books, 1985. 114.
  
  
• Because barons and still more commonly knights and squires and gentlemen travel and go off to the wars, their wives should be wise and sound administrators and manage their affairs well, because most of the time they stay at home without their husbands, who are at court or abroad.
  - Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies
  Source: Pisan, Christine de. The Treasure of the City of Ladies. trans. Sarah Lawson, New York: Penguin Books, 1985. 130.
  
  
• This work is the proper duty of the wise queen and princess: to be the means of peace and concord, to work for the avoidance of war because of the trouble that can come of it.
  - Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies
  Source: Pisan, Christine de. The Treasure of the City of Ladies. trans. Sarah Lawson, New York: Penguin Books, 1985. 51.