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What then? In the first place, the magnitude of the danger
causes a man the greatest fear, because he is staking all his fortunes on one trial; and
while he is thinking of this, the recollection of your power does not occur to his mind
less frequently than that of your justice; because all men whose lives are in another's
hand more frequently think of what he, in whose power and under whose dominion they are,
can do, than of what he ought to do,—
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