"J’ai été étonné du plaisir qu’on éprouve en faisant le bien."

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I was astonished at the pleasure to be derived from doing good. — Letter 21: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961).