"Le succès, qui ne prouve pas toujours le mérite, tient souvent davantage au choix du sujet qu’à son exécution."

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Success, which is not always a proof of merit, depends more often on the choice of a subject than on its execution. — Editor's Preface. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). — This preface was written by Choderlos de Laclos in the guise of an editor.