Virtue Has Needs Of Limits.

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.

The Spirit Of Moderation Should Also Be The Spirit Of The Lawgiver.

The Severity Of The Laws Prevents Their Execution.

Political Liberty In A Citizen Is That Tranquillity Of Spirit Which Comes From The Opinion Each One Has Of His Security, And In Order For Him To Have This Liberty The Government Must Be Such That One Citizen Cannot Fear Another Citizen.

There Is Only One Thing That Can Form A Bond Between Men, And That Is Gratitude... We Cannot Give Someone Else Greater Power Over Us Than We Have Ourselves.