Ninon de LenclosThinkers

Beauty is a hook without a bait when it is without grace.

Ennui is the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

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

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

Friendship is compared to love in that it should be in the singular ; it can be no more plural than love.

Gentleness is more powerful than Hercules.

Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

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

Modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness