"I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror."
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"Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion."
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"Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees."
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"And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?"
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"What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?"
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"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."
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"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."
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"By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!"
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"When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?"
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"Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body."
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"The part I remember best is the beginning."
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