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The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while read more
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful
will easily break through them.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others read more
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
