1. Laws and systems must keep up with the progress of human thought. ——Jefferson

2. Do a good deed and feel at ease; do a bad deed and feel ashamed.

3. What is the highest moral standard for mankind? That is patriotism.

4. Politeness can often replace the noblest feelings.

5. Those who do not know that they lack free will are the real poor.

6. In the din of politics, the voice of the law seems too weak.

7. Be careful not to say or do bad things even when you are alone, but to learn to be more shameful in front of yourself than in front of others.

8. Once the law becomes people’s needs, people no longer deserve to enjoy freedom.

9. People who can freely form habits can do more things in their lives. Habits are technical and therefore free to form.

10. Noble moral sentiments and moral behavior and the pursuit of beauty ideals are often unified and inseparable.

11. Short-lived feelings and the inability to love each other sincerely and reliably for a long time are serious moral flaws among a considerable number of young people.

12. Law is order. Only with good laws can there be good order.

13. If you really want to relieve a country's internal worries, you should rely on good legislation and not rely on random opportunities.

14. The focus of legal development is not on legislation, jurisprudence, or judicial decisions, but on society itself.

15. Good habits are the best clothes a person can wear in social interactions.

16. The weak are more protected by the law than the strong.

17. What people should decorate is the soul, not the body.

18. The most moral people are those who are satisfied without having to show it on the outside.

19. Human beings are given a job, which is spiritual growth.

20. The law today may not be the law tomorrow.

21. The power of law should follow citizens, just like the shadow follows the body. ——Beccaria

22. It is not a matter of disrespect for position, but a lack of respect for virtue; it is not a matter of shame for not being a partner, but a shame for not being knowledgeable.

23. In all human states that can accept the control of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

24. Freedom is not the freedom of oppression. Freedom is the power to do anything permitted by law.