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All publicity is good publicity.
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos / Novelist
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La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos / Novelist
Anger
War
Vengeance
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Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos / Novelist
Books And Movies
Revenge
Waiting
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I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
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Amusing
Literature
World
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A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
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Men
Enjoy
Giving
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I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.
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Might
Slave
Wells
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...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
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Choices
Illusion
Moments
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You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.
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Fear
Devil
Overcoming
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Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?
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Art
Medicine
Remember
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Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
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Dies
Principles
Winning
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Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
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Casts
Extremes
Torment
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One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
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Excess
Permit
Wish
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How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
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Characteristics
Happens
Heart
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When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
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Women
Heart
Missing
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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.
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People
Thinking
World
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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.
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Achieve
Doe
Guarantees
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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.
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Cry
Excuse
Pleasure
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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.
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Men
Evil
Fashion
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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.
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Courtship
Order
Rivals
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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?
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Men
Being In Love
Desire
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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.
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Believe
Merit
People
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I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.
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Quality
Charm
Class
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I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.
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Believe
Fall
Husband
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