Wine and sleep for the wicked - pleasant for them and pleasant for the world

When the wicked are asleep or drunk, they benefit, and so does the surrounding world, which no longer suffers from them.

("The death of the wicked is pleasant for them and pleasant for the world, and the death of the righteous is bad for them and bad for the world. Wine and sleep for the wicked are pleasant for them and pleasant for the world, and for the righteous bad for them and bad for the world. Scattering for the wicked is pleasant for them and pleasant for the world, and for the righteous bad for them and bad for the world. Gathering for the wicked is bad for them and bad for the world, and for the righteous pleasant for them and pleasant for the world. Quiet for the wicked is bad for them and bad for the world, and for the righteous pleasant for them and pleasant for the world" - Sanhedrin 8:5, and also: "At first he tried to divert his attention... but the man of his secret, with the mother’s earphones plugged into his ears, dozed off to the sound of one of the master cantors' crying... and muttered to himself, 'Sleep for the wicked - good for them and good for the world,' and left him" - H. Be'er, / To a Place Where the Wind Blows, 237)

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