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Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Believe me, Vicomte, people rarely acquire the qualities they can dispense with.

Believe me, Vicomte, people rarely acquire the qualities they can dispense with.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Your orders are charming; your manner of giving them still more delightful; you would make tyranny itself adored.

Your orders are charming; your manner of giving them still more delightful; you would make tyranny itself adored.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: All publicity is good publicity.

All publicity is good publicity.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: One should only permit excess with those one intends to leave soon.

One should only permit excess with those one intends to leave soon.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Once certain of arriving, why hurry on the journey so fast?

Once certain of arriving, why hurry on the journey so fast?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse?

Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: She refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.

She refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: But where shall happiness be found if a reciprocal love does not procure it?

But where shall happiness be found if a reciprocal love does not procure it?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: 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 I.

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 I.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: The arrows of love, like Achilles' sword, carry with them the remedy for the wounds they cause.

The arrows of love, like Achilles' sword, carry with them the remedy for the wounds they cause.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: It is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

It is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?

Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: I perceive your lovers purely as the successors of Alexander the Great, incompetent joint rulers of an empire where I once ruled supreme.

I perceive your lovers purely as the successors of Alexander the Great, incompetent joint rulers of an empire where I once ruled supreme.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature?

Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature?

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.

The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: born to avenge my sex and to dominate yours

born to avenge my sex and to dominate yours

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: I had to flatter them the whole evening to appease them; for old women must not be angered - they make young women's reputations.

I had to flatter them the whole evening to appease them; for old women must not be angered - they make young women's reputations.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: 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.

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.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: I need only to be shown my mistakes and I never rest until I have retrieved them.

I need only to be shown my mistakes and I never rest until I have retrieved them.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.

Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos quotes: Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.