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Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705) was a French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts.

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Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Ennui, Parent, Ruinous, Vices

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

Firmness, Greater, Persistency

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Heart, Husband, Lover, Lovers, Reason

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

Age, Friends, Loss, Tax

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

Active, Easy, Forget, Memories

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

Gentleness, Hercules, Powerful

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

Apex, Crisis, Lives, Moment, Moments, Pyramids

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

Army, Hundred, Making Love, Skill, Skills

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

Happy, Hold, Joy, Know, Wisdom, Wise

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

Known, Longer, Secrecy, Secret, Two

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.

Attractiveness, Besides, Captivate, Fair, Heart, Men

Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

Moonlight, Romantic Love, Soft, Together, Wonderfully

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Age, Contemporaries, Eighty, Friends

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.

Animated, Happiness, Life, Passion, Speak

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

Hatred, Honest, Love, Said

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

Delusion, Desire, Doe, Exist, Love

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

Dangerous, Form, Idea, Ideas, Making Love, Tell

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

Alaska, Head, Heart, Husband, Lover, Sensible

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Dies, Indigestion, Love, Starvation

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

Being Wise, Engaging, Enough, Wise

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