The Shastras can never control the wickedminded men, either in good or in evil acts. A man of boyish intelligence can never act as an old man.
शास्त्रं न शास्ति दुर्बुद्धिं श्रेयसे चेतराय च। न वै वृद्धो बालमतिर्भवेद् ग़जन् कथंचन॥