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“For as good customs have need of laws to maintain themselves, so laws have need of good customs so as to be observed.”

“This makes new laws insufficient because the orders, which remain fixed, corrupt them.”

“For a prudent individual knows many goods that do not have in themselves evident reasons with which one can persuade others. This wise men who wish to take away this difficulty have recourse to God.”

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