Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals. When separated from law and justice, is the worst of all.
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
"Weakness" is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
It is almost a law, eternal loves are the shortest
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.
Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”
There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
Life is defined by the Law of Force and Necessity (the more you beat necessity the stronger you get)
There's no question of practising law here, it's almost a farce. I often have to suspend my sense of reality when I enter court.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
Society is well governed when people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.