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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
• La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
• One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
• Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
• I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
• Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him,…
• Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world…
• I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms…
• Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has…
• When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
• A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
• Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

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