This Innocence Begins To Weigh Me Down.

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.

Ainsi Que La Vertu, Le Crime A Ses Degre S. Crime, Like Virtue, Has Its Degrees.

He Who Has Far To Ride Spares His Horse.

How Admirable And Beautiful Is The Simplicity Of The Evangelists! They Never Speak Injuriously Of The Enemies Of Jesus Christ, Of His Judges, Nor Of His Executioners. They Report The Facts Without A Single Reflection. They Comment Neither On Their Master's Mildness When He Was Smitten, Nor On His Constancy In The Hour Of His Ignominious Death, Which They Thus Describe: "and They Crucified Jesus.

The Face Of Tyranny Is Always Mild At First.