“Virtue only needs to be worshipped; it follows the path to happiness... it must be so, a thousand arms open to receive its devotees, if they are pursued by adversity. But everybody deserts the guilty man... one blushes at one’s attachment to him or at the tears one sheds for him, there is a fear of contagion, he is banished from everybody’s hearts, and one condemns out of pride the man one ought to help out of humanity.”
