Ninon De L'Enclos Quotes

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

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.

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

Old age is women's hell.

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

Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.