Letter 2
To Joannes
To be free from fear one must fear the law, but you have always been ashamed even to seem to fear them. At all events fear your enemies, and with them fear the judges if they are incorruptible. Nay, they are still to be feared even if they are open to bribery; for such ones, if your purses is not of the longest, are full of zeal to defend the laws once they have found a paymaster into the bargain.