8 Quotes by Pierre A.F. 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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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