And here is something this is always cropping up: people are always appearing who are terribly sensible and moral, terribly sage, terrible lovers of the human race, who really set themselves, as the goal of their whole lives, to conduct themselves in teh noblest and most rational manner and let their light shine before their neighbors, simply in order to prove to them that it is possible to live one’s live in this world both virtuously and rationally. And what then It is notorious that sooner or later many of these philanthropists have towards the end the their life change their nature and furnished material for an anecdote, sometimes of the most scandalous kind. Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, p. 37