Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?