"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
"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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Source: Phedre act 4, sc. 2 (1677)
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