Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.