For every quarrel a man and wife have before others they have a hundred when alone.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society and could be followed even if no law existed and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority but harmful to the masses of men and can be enforced on them only by terror.