The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.