"Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to……" — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
"Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die."
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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24 Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos has 24 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The…
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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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It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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