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.
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
- Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
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 hi… - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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 hi…
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives. - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined. - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
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
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.
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
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 Choderlos De Laclos
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.
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach. - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
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