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 to be undeceived.

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  Infidelity, Likes, Would Be

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• A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

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  Influence, Divine

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• A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

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  Men, Choices, Understanding

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• Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

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  Love, Indigestion, Starvation

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• Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

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  Firsts, Glances

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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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  Husband, Heart, Lovers

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• The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

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  Resistance, Virtue, Proof

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• Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

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  Desire, Doe, Delusion

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• The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

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  Book, Sin, Sells

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• When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

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  Reality, Imagination, Desire

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• There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

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  Hypocrite, Perfect, World

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• 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 a corrupt heart.

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  Heart, Men, Mind

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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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  Infidelity, Lovers, Eternity

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• It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

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  Wise, Enough, Being Wise

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• A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

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  Mistress, Deceit, Deceiving

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• Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

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  Novelty, Pleasure

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• A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

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  Husband, Heart, Alaska

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• It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

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  War, Making Love, Genius

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• 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 cherish it.

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  Life, Happiness, Passion

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Carpe Diem

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• Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

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  Men, Awkward, Virtue

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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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  Tombstone, Heart, Joy

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• After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

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  Age, Eighty

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• Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

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  People, Theatre, Acting

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• Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

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  Gossip, Born, Ennui

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