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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. — Ninon De L'Enclos

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

Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage. — Aldous Huxley

For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning. — Etienne De L'Amour

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love. — Ninon De L'Enclos

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art. — Honore De Balzac

[L]ike a kingfisher I have made my nest on the waves. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts. — Ninon De L'Enclos

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there. — Robert De Niro

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I hold those wise who know how to be happy. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Brunettes are full of electricity. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends. — Ninon De L'Enclos

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. — Gilles Deleuze

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. — Ninon De L'Enclos

In theory, there's no difference between theory & practice, but in practice there is. — Jan L.A. Van De Snepscheut

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. — Ninon De L'Enclos

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Firmness is great; persistency is greater. — Ninon De L'Enclos

The loss of friends is a tax on age! — Ninon De L'Enclos

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. — L. Sprague De Camp

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Jack wasn't worried. Wherever Mirie was stuck, she had probably taken over and was ruling as the de facto empress. — C.L. Bevill

Reserve delicacy of sentiment for friendship; accept love for what it is.... The more dignity you give it, the more dangerous you make it. — Ninon De L'Enclos

One must choose between loving women and knowing them. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure. — Ninon De L'Enclos

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. — Gilles Deleuze

Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons. — Vincent De Paul

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory. — Jan L.A. Van De Snepscheut

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover. — Ninon De L'Enclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them. — Ninon De L'Enclos

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L'eau ne brille que par le soleil. - Et c'est toi qui es mon soleil.) — Charles De Leusse

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. — Louis L'Amour

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists. — Gilles Deleuze

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. — Ninon De L'Enclos

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. — Ninon De L'Enclos

The secret known to two is no longer a secret. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven — James Ellroy

Ah! si l'on o tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him? — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L'argent ouvre de nombreuses portes. - Celle du cercueil, entre autres.) — Charles De Leusse

The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. — Ninon De L'Enclos

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre) — Charles De Leusse

Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process. — Etienne De L'Amour

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge. — Etienne De L'Amour

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm) — L.G.A. McIntyre

Inconstancy is the child of satiety. — Ninon De L'Enclos

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. — Ninon De L'Enclos

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." - L. Sprague de Camp — Robert A. Heinlein

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers) — Charles De Leusse

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better. — Vincent De Paul

Hatred is nearly always honest
rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, - Mais pas l'espoir !) — Charles De Leusse

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well. — Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

[L]ove is inventive to infinity. — Vincent De Paul

Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.) — Charles De Leusse

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Or have you simply been enjoying that North African river cruise?"
"You what?"
"In de-Nile? — J.L. Merrow

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.) — Charles De Leusse

And in any case ... there are no more supernatural noises nowadays ... — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind ... — Ninon De L'Enclos

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Old age is women's hell. — Ninon De L'Enclos

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite. — Alfred Jarry

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! — Ninon De L'Enclos

I was afraid... I am afraid of loving you, knowing that someday you will go and leave me here. — Danielle L. Jensen

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship. — Ninon De L'Enclos

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

And as they walked along he sang "Tol-de-ri-de-oh!" at every step, he felt so gay. — L. Frank Baum

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now. — Gaston Leroux

Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully. — Ninon De L'Enclos

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day. — Ninon De L'Enclos

If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42 — Dante Alighieri

Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.) — Charles De Leusse

The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules. — Ninon De L'Enclos

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.) — Charles De Leusse

Live? Our servants will do that for us.. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

The passions do not die out; they burn out. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic — Victor Hugo

The less heart, the more comfort. — Ninon De L'Enclos

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. — Ninon De L'Enclos

[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity. — Vincent De Paul

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness. — Ninon De L'Enclos