There's no easy way to be free.
Happy is the nation without a history.
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity. . . will respect the less important and arbitrary ones. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
Attachment is the root of all suffering.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.