Sed quanta auctoritas legum humanarum, cum illas et evadere homini contingat et plerumque in admissis delitiscenti, et aliquando contemnere ex voluntate vel necessitate deliquenti? Recogitate ea etiam pro brevitate supplicii cuiuslibet, non tamen ultra mortem remansuri.
But what authority can mans laws have, when a man may have the luck to evade them, again and again undiscovered in his guilt, sometimes to despise them, as he breaks them of choice or of necessity? Think over all this, remembering how short is any punishment that will not continue after death.
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