Book: Dangerous liaisons

Do you think, sir, - or pretend to think - that love leads to happiness, I am deeply convinced that it will make me unhappy, and I would like never to hear this word. I think that even talking about it deprives of tranquility...

Cool stillness, the sleep of the soul, being the likeness of death, - all this is not the path to happiness; only the living passion lead to it, and despite the agony I you experience I can without hesitation say that at the present moment I'm happier you.

Not that in the moment I wasn't happy, but I foresee it for a while.

... love, like medicine, is only art to help nature?

You can lead and bad poetry when they belong to the great poet.

Who may want happiness, bought at the price of losing his mind, happiness, short-lived joy which are replaced in the best case regret, if not remorse?

... when one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses most vulnerable spot...

... when you are texting someone, then do it for him and not for yourself. Therefore, you should try to tell him not so much what you think, but the fact that he likes better.

What's truly brazen arrogance of this man: he dares to sleep when a woman has a reason to complain about him, has not yet been avenged!

The spell that supposedly find in each other, are in us, just one love makes such a wonderful loved one.

Slavishly to eke out other people's tracks and inglorious triumph!

However, I felt that I should not miss the opportunity to get her orders, for I am convinced that, on the one hand, he who commands himself is partly associated, and with another - that the seemingly power that we supposedly provide over a women, is one of those traps, in which it is particularly difficult not to get caught.

The value of a Work lies in its usefulness, or to deliver to them pleasure, or in both together, if so are its properties. But success is not always a virtue, it often depends more from the choice of subject than from his writing, more from the set of objects referred to in the novel than how they are presented.

... the most sacred duty is to never deceive rendered to us of trust. I would change him if he showed anyone else the secrets of the heart, who wishes to open only one of me.