Quotes by : Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos

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

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

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our....

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

He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're....

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

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

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

Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do....

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