Honore De Balzac Quotes, Lying Quotes, Law Quotes

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

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God is thy law, thou mine.

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Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

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