Michael’s Reviews > Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue > Status Update

“‘Oh, Heaven!’ I said to Rosalie when these dreadful scenes were over, ‘how can one indulge in such excesses? How can one take pleasure in the infliction of pain?’”

“It is true, therefore, that prosperity can reward the very worst conduct, and that in the very midst of corruption and disorder life can be filled with all that men call happiness; that the example of misfortune everywhere pursuing virtue, and which we shall presently offer to our reader, does not torment honest people any the more.”