John Calvin: "Jika penilaian umat manusia benar, kebiasaan akan diatur...
"Jika penilaian umat manusia benar, kebiasaan akan diatur oleh kebaikan. Tetapi seringkali justru sebaliknya; karena, apa pun yang dilihat banyak orang, segera memperoleh kekuatan kebiasaan. Tapi urusan manusia jarang terjadi dengan bahagia karena semakin baik tentu saja semakin banyak. Oleh karena itu kejahatan pribadi orang banyak umumnya menghasilkan kesalahan publik, atau lebih tepatnya bahwa persetujuan bersama dalam wakil yang orang-orang layak ini harus hukum."
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Versi Bahasa Inggris
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.
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