Top 60 Ninon Quotes
#1. There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.
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#2. 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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#3. It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
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#5. Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
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#7. Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
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#11. 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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#12. Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Hatred is nearly always honest
rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
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#17. It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
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#18. Reserve delicacy of sentiment for friendship; accept love for what it is.... The more dignity you give it, the more dangerous you make it.
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#19. Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
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#20. When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
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#21. There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind ...
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
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#27. Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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#31. Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
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#33. There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
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#34. 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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#35. A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
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#42. Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
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#43. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
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#45. 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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#46. Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
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#47. A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
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#53. 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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#54. It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
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#59. 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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#60. We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
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