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In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.

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...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

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...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may be sure, from the barbarous pleasure of making o...more

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Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies o...more

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If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round us, if, nonetheless, it should come to pass that t...more

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Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may picture it, that is...more