Laws Undertake To Punish Only Overt Acts.

I Have Always Observed That To Succeed In The World One Should Seem A Fool, But Be Wise.

When One Wants To Change Manners And Customs, One Should Not Do So By Changing The Laws.

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

Law In General Is Human Reason, Inasmuch As It Governs All The Inhabitants Of The Earth: The Political And Civil Laws Of Each Nation Ought To Be Only The Particular Cases In Which Human Reason Is Applied.

Power Ought To Serve As A Check To Power.