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• "The more corrupt the state, the more laws. [Lat., Corruptissima republica, plurimae leges.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (III, 27)
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• "When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
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• "The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]"
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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• "He hurts the good who spares the bad. [Lat., Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.]"
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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• "Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant,--a harpy that devours everything."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt."
  By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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• "What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."
  By: Herbert Spencer
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• "Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."
  By: Sophocles
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• "Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them."
  By: Solon, Answer to Anacharsis, in Plutarch's "Life of Solon"
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• "To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates."
  By: Solon
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• "Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape."
  By: Solon
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• "When to raise the wind some lawyer tries, Mysterious skins of parchment meet our eyes; On speeds the smiling suit-- . . . . Till stript--nonsuited--he is doomed to toss In legal shipwreck, and redeemless loss, Lucky, if like Ulysses, he can keep His head above the waters of the deep."
  By: Horace Smith and James Smith, Rejected Addresses--Architectural Atoms, (translation by Dr. B.T.)
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• "Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture. as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized entangled in."
  By: William Shenstone, On Politics
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• "Still you keep o' th' windy side of the law."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Fabian at III, iv)
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• "And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at III, ii)
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