"Une main occupée pour la force, l'autre pour l'amour, quel orateur pourrait prétendre à la grâce en pareille situation?"

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One hand was needed for power, the other for love: where is the orator that could aspire to grace in such a position? — Letter 96: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961).