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"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."
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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."
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"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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