Ninon de Lenclos - Love Quotes

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Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

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Love is rather the god of sensation than of sensibility.

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When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered.

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

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The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.

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It takes one hundred times more intelligence to make love well than to command armies.

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I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but to me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

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Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love.

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How often have I told you, that love seldom dies of hunger, but frequently of satiety?

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

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