I could take his keys from his pocket, open his safe, and take the thirty, forty, sixty thousand francs that I saw heaped up there.

The devil take me if it were ever discovered.

A doctor does not strangle his patients, he poisons them.

He kills them scientifically, not brutally." "People who have no conscience can do such things; but for us they are impossible." "I assure you it is not conscience that would have restrained me." "The fear of remorse, if I may use an ugly word." "But intelligent persons have no remorse, my dear child, because they reason before the deed, and not after.

Before acting they weigh the pros and cons, and know what the consequences of their actions will be to others as well as to themselves.