Utopia Book I Quotes & Questions

"I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between
which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion."

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