The sages have said that righteousness consists in the performance of objects by means of agreeable means. See, O Yudhisthira, that this is the standard that has been upheld in pointing out the marks of virtue and sin.
सर्वं प्रियाभ्युपगतं धर्ममाहुर्मनीषिणः। पश्यैतं लक्षणोद्देशं धर्माधर्मे युधिष्ठिर॥