No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. "The Captive," vol. 10, pt. 2, ch. 2, Remembrance of Things Past (1922), trans. by Scott Monkrieff (1929).
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Phrixus. Frag. 970.
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. "The Captive," vol. 9, pt. 1, ch. 1, Remembrance of Things Past (1922, trans. 1929).