Une sadique comme elle est l’artiste du mal, ce qu’une créature entièrement mauvaise ne pourrait être car le mal ne lui serait pas extérieur, il lui semblerait tout naturel, ne se distinguerait même pas d’elle; et la vertu, la mémoire des morts, la tendresse filiale, comme elle n’en aurait pas le culte, elle ne trouverait pas un plaisir sacrilège à les profaner. →
A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be, for in that case the evil would not have been external, it would have seemed quite natural to her, and would not even have been distinguishable from herself; and as for virtue, respect for the dead, filial obedience, since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation.