Dorval, the leader of a respectable Paris gang, expounds for Juliette the secret creed of all ruling classes, a creed to which Nietzsche, proclaiming it to his own time, added the psychology of resentment. Like Juliette he admired “the beautiful terribleness of the deed,”42 even though, as a German professor, he differed from Sade in rejecting criminality, because its egoism “is restricted to such base goals. If its goals are lofty humanity has a different standard, judging ‘crime,’ even when committed with the most terrible means, not to be such.”43 The enlightened Juliette is still free of
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