Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.