Je sentis que le seul homme avec qui je pouvais parler sur cet objet, sans me compromettre, était mon Contesseur. Aussitôt je pris mon parti; je surmontai ma petite honte; et me vantant d'une faute que je n'avais pas commise, je m'accusai d'avoir fait tout ce que font les femmes. Ce fut mon expression; mais en parlant ainsi je ne savais en vérité quelle idée j'exprimais. Mon espoir ne fut ni tout à fait trompé, ni entièrement rempli; la crainte de me trahir m'empêchait de m'éclairer : mais le bon Père me fit le mal si grand que j'en conclus que le plaisir devait être extrême; et au désir de le connaitre succéda celui de le goûter.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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If, for example, I had just as much love as you had virtue (and that is surely saying a lot) it is not astonishing that one should end at the same time as the other. It is not my fault.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos


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

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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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 Choderlos de Laclos

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

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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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 Choderlos de Laclos

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

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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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 Choderlos de Laclos

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