Success (n.) is the greatest liar in that the creator of a great work is falsely venerated as the great man. In truth, it is the 'work' itself that is the success and it is the work itself that invents the supposed great man who is supposed to have created it.
Success (n.) is and has always been a great liar.
Success (n.) of Christianity proves nothing of its founder's greatness — if it did, it would be evidence against him; greatness ought not to depend on success: Demosthenes had greatness and no success.
Success (n.) bestows on an act the whole lustre of a good conscience — even in the doer's own eyes; failure casts pangs of conscience over the most estimable deed.
Success (n.) that comes regularly rests on knowing one's errors and weaknesses uncommonly well — well enough to always show them only as apparent strengths.
Success (n.) is rarer the higher a thing's kind.
Success (n.) has always been the greatest liar — the work invents the man who is supposed to have created it.
Success (n.) has always been the greatest liar: the work invents whoever is supposed to have created it.