Men Create The Gods After

Education And Morals Make The Good Man, The Good Statesman, The Good Ruler.

The Mass Of Mankind Are Evidently Slavish In Their Tastes, Preferring A Life Suitable To Beasts.

Character Is Made By Many Acts; It May Be Lost By A Single One.

Even When Laws Have Been Written Down, They Ought Not Always To Remain Unaltered. As In Other Sciences, So In Politics, It Is Impossible That All Things Should Be Precisely Set Down In Writing; For Enactments Must Be Universal, But Actions Are Concerned With Particulars. Hence We Infer That Sometimes And In Certain Cases Laws May Be Changed.

While Fiction Is Often Impossible, It Should Not Be Implausible.