Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Quotes

He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.

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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.

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

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Never to my mind had she looked more beautiful. Inevitably so. A woman reaches the height of her beauty – and only at this time can she inspire that intoxication of the soul which is so often talked of and so rarely experienced – when we are sure of her love, but not of her favours.

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

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

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Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

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