Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

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.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions