{"author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["actions","affection","behavior","conduct","feelings","love","madame-de-tourvel","vicomte-de-valmont"],"id":10890,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["evil","good","humanity","virtue"],"id":39418,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["insults","women","words"],"id":71971,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["devotion","excess","insightful","social"],"id":82572,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["devil","fear","god","love"],"id":130861,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"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?","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["desire","love"],"id":173454,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["conversation","love","writing"],"id":239965,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"...It is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["choice","illusion","life"],"id":244539,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["love","medicine","nature"],"id":312179,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["excuse","love","pleasure"],"id":315474,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}