If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
I can hear those glances that you think are silent.
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.
None love, but they who wish to love.