Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quotes

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

Do not prove things too much.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

My ex-boyfriend didn't hear me fart once, and we were together six years. I hated the thought of grossing him out, so I think some things should be left to do privately.

Never say never, but I won't kiss just for the heck of it.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.