“The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.”
Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses. <br class="br">Letter 32: Madame de Volanges to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_32 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
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Goethe.
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