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“Clémentine viewed good deeds as trickery; sensitivity, a weakness from which we must protect ourselves; modesty, an error that always disadvantages the charms of one who's pretty; sincerity, an idiocy that makes a fool; humility, an absurdity; temperance, a deprivation for the best years of one's life; and religion, laughable hypocrisy.”

Religion Humility Sincerity Modesty Good Deeds Temperance Léonore S Story

Book:Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III

Source: Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III

“If you'll permit me, the distance that separates debauchery from impiety is far greater than that between debauchery and religious superstition. One does what one likes when safe from reproach under the mantle of religion; but the woman who loves virtue for its own sake and serves it because it inflames her heart, who's brazen and bares her soul—she'll be seen rushing headlong to commit errors she can't hide.”

Religion Virtue Debauchery Léonore S Story

Book:Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III

Source: Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III