“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.