Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quotes
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Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
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La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
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One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
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Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
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I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
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Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you…
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Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and…
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I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in…
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Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just…
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When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
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A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
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Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
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It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for…
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How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
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You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.
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I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
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Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?
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...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
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I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
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It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more…
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