Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must set out to please, so as to be preferred to him. If you don't have one, you must still please so as to obviate the possibility of having one.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in Dangerous Liaisons (1782)
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With men, you say yourself, infidelity is not inconstancy.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in Dangerous Liaisons (1782)
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Luxury, nowadays, is ruinous. We criticize, but must conform, and superfluities in the end deprive us of necessities.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in Dangerous Liaisons (1782)
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