All sorts of carriages pass under that portal, and he has glimpses of happy, radiant men! This one is an ambassador; the ambassador looks at him, and says: "Succeed." This is a bishop; the bishop looks at him and says: "Succeed." This is a judge; the judge looks at him, and smiles on him, and says: "Succeed." Thus, to escape the gendarmes,--therein consists henceforth the whole moral law.

To rob, to pillage, to poignard, to assassinate, all this is criminal only when one is fool enough to allow himself to be caught.
Every man who meditates a crime has a constitution to violate, an oath to break, an obstacle to destroy.

In a word, take your measures well.
Be adroit.Succeed.The only guilty actions are the _coups_ that fail.
You put your hand in the pocket of a passer-by, in the evening, at nightfall, in a lonely place; he seizes you; you let go; he arrests you, and takes you to the guard-house.

You are guilty; to the galleys! You do not let go: you have a knife about you, you bury it in the man's throat; he falls; he is dead; now take his purse, and make off.

Bravo! capitally done! You have shut the victim's mouth, the only witness who could speak.