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

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.

—Confucius, c. 500

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

—Roman proverb

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

Kings and fools know no law.

—German proverb

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.

—Rwandan proverb

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

—Nadine Gordimer, 1971

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

—Emma Goldman, 1917

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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