Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses Quotes
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
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.
Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?
It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.