Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos Quotes
One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Success, which is not always a proof of merit, depends more often on the choice of a subject than on its execution.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
The shame love causes is like its pain; we only feel it once. We may feign it afterwards, but we do not feel it. However, the pleasure remains, and that is indeed something.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Luxury, nowadays, is ruinous. We criticize, but must conform, and superfluities in the end deprive us of necessities.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must set out to please, so as to be preferred to him. If you don't have one, you must still please so as to obviate the possibility of having one.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Man enjoys the happiness he feels, woman the happiness she gives. This difference, so essential and yet so seldom noticed, has a marked difference on the whole of their respective behaviour. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
