Honor is unknown in despotic states.
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.