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Believe me, Vicomte, people rarely acquire the qualities they can dispense with.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Your orders are charming; your manner of giving them still more delightful; you would make tyranny itself adored.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
All publicity is good publicity.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
One should only permit excess with those one intends to leave soon.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Once certain of arriving, why hurry on the journey so fast?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
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
I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
She refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
But where shall happiness be found if a reciprocal love does not procure it?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
We get bored with everything, my angel, it's a law of nature: it's not my fault.
— Laclos, Pierre Choderlos De
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
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
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
The arrows of love, like Achilles' sword, carry with them the remedy for the wounds they cause.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
It is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
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
Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
born to avenge my sex and to dominate yours
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
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
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
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
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
I need only to be shown my mistakes and I never rest until I have retrieved them.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos