Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Happiness Quotes

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If you will allow me, at my age, a reflection that is scarcely ever made at yours, I must say that if one only knew where one's true happiness lay one would never look for it outside the limits prescribed by the law and by religion.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Man enjoys the happiness he feels, woman the happiness she gives. This difference, so essential and yet so seldom noticed, has a marked difference on the whole of their respective behavior. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos