“I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.”

— Molière

J'aime mieux un vice commode,
Qu'une fatigante vertu.
Act I, sc. iv
Amphitryon (1666)

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J'aime mieux un vice commode, Qu'une fatigante vertu.

Amphitryon (1666)

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