"Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses."

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The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses. — Letter 32: Madame de Volanges to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961).