“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

“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.”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

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

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”