2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- People : ---------------------------------- Author : Cesare Beccaria : Of Crimes and Punishments Text : ---------------------------------- ...that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniences, who had rather command the sentiments of mankind than excite them, and dares say to reason, `Be thou a slave'; who would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it. From : Chapter 40. Events : ---------------------------------- 2 -- Added : April 07, 2020 2 -- Updated : June 30, 2022 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/