Chapter

 1 8 |        and to cheat the public laws? Wherever we shall obtain
 2 8 |       nothing else besides the laws to be reverenced. While
 3 8 |   truth, but of utility, since laws cannot punish conscience
 4 11|         and Plato, in his Book Laws, says: "What God is, ought
 5 12|       despise the might of the laws? It is therefore the fear
 6 14|       his books respecting the Laws, since he thus speaks: "
 7 16|       nor parents, neglect the laws, and even God Himself. Anger,
 8 16|      such disturbance that the laws will be despised and overpowered,
 9 17| follows that we have injurious laws, which enact punishment
10 17|      those who sin against the laws; for although a judge may
11 17|      he is the executor of the laws, not of his own spirit or
12 18|      him who presides over the laws, because the deed is not
13 18|       opinion, but that of the laws. It may be granted that
14 20|      every offence. The public laws condemn those who are manifestly