The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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.
I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
My only hope lies in my despair.
All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.