62 Quotes by Ninon de L'Enclos

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

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

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

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.

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

Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies.

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.

Those who need religion to help them to behave as they should, are much to be pitied. It is a sure sign of a limited intellect or of a corrupt heart.

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