Aristippus taught that a wise man might steal and commit adultery when he could.

Unnatural crimes were vindicated.

The last dread crime--suicide--was pleaded for by Cicero and Seneca as the mark of a hero; and Demosthenes, Cato, Brutus, and Cassius, carried the means of self-destruction about them, that they might not fall alive into the hands of their enemies.
The daily lives of these wisest of the heathen corresponded to their teachings, so far at least as vice was concerned.

The most notorious vices, and even unnatural crimes, were practiced by them.

The reader of the classics does not need to be reminded that such vices are lauded in the poems of Ovid, and Horace, and Virgil; that the poets were rewarded and honored for songs which would not be tolerated for a moment in the vilest theater of New York.
Recently some daily papers and broad-church preachers have taken to the canonization of heathen saints; they denounce vigorously the bigotry of any who will not open to them the gates of heaven, or who will, in general, deny salvation to good heathens.