With no active compassion or good-will, he had just as little active malevolence, being chiefly occupied in liking his particular pleasures, and not disliking anything but what hindered those pleasures--everything else ranking with the last murder and the last _opra bouffe_, under the head of things to talk about. 
While he had no active good-will, he had little active malevolence, being chiefly occupied in his own particular pleasures. 