To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.