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XXXV.--There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious by the… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

XXXV.--There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious by their brilliancy,* their number, or their excess; thus it happens that public robbery is called financial skill, and the unjust capture of provinces is called a conquest. (1665, No. 192.)

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