On this point the legislator is better informed than all the poets put together.

He who listens to him shall be for ever happy, but he who will not listen shall have the following law directed against him:--He who steals much, or he who steals little of the public property is deserving of the same penalty; for they are both impelled by the same evil motive.

When the law punishes one man more lightly than another, this is done under the idea, not that he is less guilty, but that he is more curable.

Now a thief who is a foreigner or slave may be curable; but the thief who is a citizen, and has had the advantages of education, should be put to death, for he is incurable.
Much consideration and many regulations are necessary about military expeditions; the great principal of all is that no one, male or female, in war or peace, in great matters or small, shall be without a commander.

Whether men stand or walk, or drill, or pursue, or retreat, or wash, or eat, they should all act together and in obedience to orders.