Quotes by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

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You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
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 w — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. A — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
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 — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is no — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses