Section 36 of Human All Too Human

It begins on the bottom of a page and I didn’t want the pic to be sideways

Promoting the good of humanity sounds like a good idea but who makes those decisions? A society who is governed like that are not free

Translation of the French, and this is a doozy, listen up y'all!!

That which the world calls virtue is usually nothing but a phantom formed by our passions to which we give an honest name so as to do what we wish with impunity.