“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.”

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”

“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”

“A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.”