So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.