But they proceeded consistently enough inasmuch as they degraded their highest good in the same way, viz., in proportion to the lowliness of their principle, and expected no greater happiness than can be acquired through human prudence (to which temperance and moderation of the inclinations belong as well), which, as we know, must be paltry enough and turn out very differently according to circumstances, not even counting the exceptions that their maxims had to admit incessantly and that made them unsuitable for laws.