A quotation from Moliere

SGANARELLE: But when a great lord is a wicked man, it is a terrible thing.
 
[Mais un grand seigneur méchant homme est une terrible chose.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 1, sc. 1 (1665) [tr. Waller (1904)]

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