One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.


In French: Le ridicule qu'on a augmente toujours en proportion qu'on s'en défend.

Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) - Letter 141: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont.

Translation by Richard Aldington (1924)


One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.

One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.

One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.

One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.