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No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.

People Here Argue About Religion Interminably, But It Appears That They Are Competing At The Same Time To See Who Can Be The Least Devout.

It Is Necessary From The Very Nature Of Things That Power Should Be A Check To Power.

Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous. To Be Convinced Of This We Need Only Represent, On The One Hand,the Numberless Benefits Which Result From Vanity, As Industry, The Arts, Fashions, Politeness, And Taste; And On The Other, The Infinite Evils Which Spring From The Pride Of Certain Nations, A Laziness, Poverty, A Total Neglect Of Everything.

I Have Never Known Any Distress That An Hour's Reading Did Not Relieve.