Small crimes always precedes great ones.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.