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The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1971

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.

—Tacitus, c. 110

Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

Kings and fools know no law.

—German proverb

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

—Quentin Crisp, 1984

Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844

An unjust law is no law at all.

—Saint Augustine, 395

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765