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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.

Raillery Is A Mode Of Speaking In Favor Of One's Wit At The Expense Of One's Better Nature.

Republics Come To An End By Luxurious Habits; Monarchies By Poverty.

Laws, In Their Most General Signification, Are The Necessary Relations Arising From The Nature Of Things. In This Sense All Beings Have Their Laws: The Deity His Laws, The Material World Its Laws, The Intelligences Superior To Man Their Laws, The Beasts Their Laws, Man His Laws.