Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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

Choices

Illusion

Moments

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

Enjoy

Giving

Men

All publicity is good publicity.

Publicity

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

Casts

Extremes

Torment

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

Art

Medicine

Remember

Either you have a rival or you don’t. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don’t you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Courtship

Order

Rivals

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

Characteristics

Happens

Heart

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.

Evil

Fashion

Men

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.

Believe

Merit

People

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Amusing

Literature

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Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

All publicity is good publicity.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

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

Either you have a rival or you don’t. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don’t you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

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

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.

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.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

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