Intelligent men like you never engage in acts that are sinful and opposed to their best interests and which strike at the very root of their purposes.
न हि कार्यविरुद्धेषु बहुपापेषु कर्मसु। मूलघातिषु सज्जन्ते बुद्धिमन्तो भवद्विधाः॥