“Love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , book Les Liaisons dangereuses

L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider à la nature.
Letter 10: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_10
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)

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L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider à la nature.

Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782, Marquise de Merteuil

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