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Ninon De L Enclos Inspirational Quotes (39)

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It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
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I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
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Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
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Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
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I hold those wise who know how to be happy.
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Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
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Old age is women's hell.
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Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
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There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
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Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
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A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
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