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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

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Devil Fear God Love

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

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Happiness Money

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.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Evil Good Humanity Virtue

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

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Love Medicine Nature

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

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Dangerous Liaisons Fatal Heart Marquise De Merteuil Revenge

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

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Heart

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.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Insults Women Words

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. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Desire In Love Love

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?

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Desire Love

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

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Actions Affection Behavior Conduct Feelings Love Madame De Tourvel Vicomte De Valmont

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

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Choice Illusion Life

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

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Romantic

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.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Excuse Love Pleasure

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good, and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Charity Good Works Vicomte De Valmont Virtue

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

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Devotion Excess Insightful Social

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

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos Conversation Love Writing
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