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Author: Common crawl
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English[en]
The scandal must be expiated; I was arrested, suspended, and dismissed; I was the victim of my scruples rather than of my incontinence, and I had reason to believe, from the reproaches which accompanied my disgrace, that one can often escape punishment by being guilty of a worse fault.
French[fr]
M’étant ôté le droit de m’y soumettre, je résolus de ne le point profaner; car, malgré mes classes et mes études, ayant toujours mené une vie uniforme et simple, j’avais conservé dans mon esprit toute la clarté des lumières primitives: les maximes du monde ne les avaient point obscurcies, et ma pauvreté m’éloignait des tentations qui dictent les sophismes du vice.