Fortunate people seldom mend their ways, for when good luck crowns their misdeeds with success they think it is because they are right.

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble

Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Maxims], #227 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]