Note 32 — III.—LAWS FOR REPRESSION.
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Marcus Aurelius, who understood all the importance of moral perfection, thanks the gods for having had a youth of chastity. How few sovereigns can say with him: “Men want a head as flocks do a leader. This head is not above the laws, his life separated from the body of society would be a factious one.... A sovereign cannot do his duty if he does not find advisers to point it out to him,” &c.