Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it - when unpopular

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion

What is right may not make you popular; what makes you popular may not always be right