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Ninon de L'Enclos [1620-1705] French

Rank: 102
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Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos was a French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts.

Age, Brainy, Good, Relationship, Strength, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.	Relationship	101
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.		102
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.	Women	103
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.		104
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.		105
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.		106
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.	Brainy, Strength	107
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.	Good	108
Old age is a woman's hell.	Age	109
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.		110
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.		111
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.		112
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.		113
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.		114
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.		115
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.		116
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.		117

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