Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes - Page 2

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• Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

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  Gossip, Born, Ennui

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• The passions do not die out; they burn out.

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  Passion, Burn Out, Dies

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• Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

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  Powerful, Gentleness

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• Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

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  Hatred, Honest, Said

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• Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

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  Virtue, Feminine, Invention

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• One must choose between loving women and knowing them.

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  Knowing, Loving A Woman

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• It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

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  Army, Skills, Making Love

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• Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

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  Flattering

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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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  Ideas, Making Love, Form

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• I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Joy

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• The less heart, the more comfort.

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  Heart, Comfort

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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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  Heart, Men, Attractiveness

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• The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

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  Mind, Relief, Body

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• Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

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  Cousin, Wickedness, Firsts

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• The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

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  Two, Secret, Secrecy

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• The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

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  Joy, Mind

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• Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

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  Romantic Love, Together, Moonlight

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• Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

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  Children, Satiety, Inconstancy

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• Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

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  Parent, Vices, Ennui

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• What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

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  Death, Behinds, Mortals

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• Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

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  Firmness, Greater

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• There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

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  Pyramids, Moments, Crisis

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• Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

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  Friendship, Should

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• Old age is a woman's hell.

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  Age, Hell, Old Age

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• If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

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  Wrinkles, Feet, Giving

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