Let The Punishment Of Criminals Be Useful. A Hanged Man Is Good For Nothing, And A Man Condemned To Public Works Will Serve The Country, And Is A Living Lesson.

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Let the punishment of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing,
and a man condemned to public works will serve the country, and is a living
lesson. -- Voltaire (1694-1778) "Philosophical Dictionary" Civil Law

The individual who prosecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
-- Voltaire,_Philosophical Dictionary_, 1764...
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. --Voltaire, _Prejudices_, in _Philosophical Dictionary_
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of the law. -- Grover Cleveland
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. -- Voltaire
To Serve Man- at better booksellers.
Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. -- Bucy's Law

Let The Punishment Of Criminals Be Useful. A Hanged Man Is Good For Nothing, And A Man Condemned To Public Works Will Serve The Country, And Is A Living Lesson.

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