Il s'en faut bien que l'innocence ne trouve autant de protection que le crime.
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Innocence is very far from finding as much protection as crime.
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Maxim 465.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Il faut, autant qu'on peut, obliger tout le monde:
On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi.Jean de La Fontaine
Il m'a trop bien servi;
Augmentant mon pouvoir, il me l'a tout ravi:
II n'est plus mon sujet qu'autant qu'il le veut ?tre.
Et qui me fait régner en effet est mon maître.Pierre Corneille
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene
Ah! comme vous dites, il faut glisser sur bien des pensées, et ne faire pas semblant de les voir.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.John Adams
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