keep at a great distance from the thoughts of being pure, if
he hath been once guilty of murder.

28. The law ordains also, that parents should be honored
immediately after God himself, and delivers that son who
does not requite them for the benefits he hath received from
them, but is deficient on any such occasion, to be stoned. It
also says that the young men should pay due respect to every
elder, since God is the eldest of all beings. It does not give
leave to conceal any thing from our friends, because that is
not true friendship which will not commit all things to their
fidelity: it also forbids the revelation of secrets, even
though
an enmity arise between them. If any judge takes bribes, his
punishment is death: he that overlooks one that offers him a
petition, and this when he is able to relieve him, he is a
guilty
person. What is not by any one intrusted to another ought
not to be required back again. No one is to touch another's
goods. He that lends money must not demand usury for its
loan. These, and many more of the like sort, are the rules
that unite us in the bands of society one with another.

29. It will be also worth our while to see what equity our
legislator would have us exercise in our intercourse with
strangers; for it will thence appear that he made the best
provision he possibly could, both that we should not dissolve
our own constitution, nor show any envious mind towards
those that would cultivate a friendship with us. Accordingly,
our legislator admits all those that have a mind to observe