Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes

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• Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less…
• Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
• Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
• Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
• If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or…
• It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
• It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
• One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
• A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
• Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
• The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
• Old age is a woman's hell.
• A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
• The secret known to two is no longer a secret.
• I hold those wise who know how to be happy.
• Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
• That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to…
• The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
• Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

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