“ The free man can do no wrong. He does everything he likes—if he can. His power is the only measure of his morality. ”
 W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915). copy citation

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“and, indifferent to the rewards, asks only to be left alone. He is the independent traveller, who uses Cook's tickets because they save trouble, but looks with good-humoured contempt on the personally conducted parties. The free man can do no wrong. He does everything he likes—if he can. His power is the only measure of his morality. He recognises the laws of the state and he can break them without sense of sin, but if he is punished he accepts the punishment without rancour. Society has the power. But if for the individual there was no right and no wrong, then it seemed to Philip that conscience lost its power.” source