“One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, book Les Liaisons dangereuses

On a toujours assez vécu, quand on a eu le temps d’acquérir l’amour des femmes et l’estime des hommes. <br class="br">Letter 79: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_79 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)

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