# Quote — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

> Luxury, nowadays, is ruinous. We criticize, but must conform, and superfluities in the end deprive us of necessities.

- Author: [Pierre Choderlos de Laclos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierre-choderlos-de-laclos.md)
- Book: [Les Liaisons Dangereuses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierre-choderlos-de-laclos/les-liaisons-dangereuses.md)
- Original (fr): Le luxe absorbe tout: on le blâme, mais il faut l'imiter; et le superflu finit par priver du nécessaire.
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierre-choderlos-de-laclos/les-liaisons-dangereuses/luxury-nowadays-is-ruinous

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> Only love can make one happy.

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> 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 behaviour. A man's pleasure is to satisfy desires, a woman's is chiefly to arouse them.

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