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One Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
- 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…
- 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…
- When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
- Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
- I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have…
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