… the libertines worked to their advantage, confusing their victims with their hypocrisy, their seductive words and their lies that were condoned by the very precepts that regulated social interaction. 7 . Didier Masseau, 'Le dévoiement des … became the libertines’ weapon of choice to carry out their deeds. Les Liaisons dangereuses ou Lettres recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l’instruction de quelques autres ( Dangerous Connections: A Series of Letters, …
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… he was exposed to the dangers that politico-theological faction could inflict on the individual from his earliest youth, an aspect which later came to fundamentally inform his concept of sociability. Moreover, from the start, the … of humanity: 'To love the Publick, to study universal Good, and to promote the Interest of the whole World, as far as lies within our power, is surely the Height of Goodness, and makes that Temper which we call Divine ' ( Letter concerning …