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Law

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep. – Proverb

Where the law is uncertain there is no law. – Proverb

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. – Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make whats black, white. – Proverb

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. – Proverb

Possession is nine tenths of the law. – Proverb

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. – Proverb

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. – Proverb

Written laws are like spiders webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. – Anacharsis

Law is a bottomless pit. – John Arbuthnot

The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. – Asoka

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances. – Azarias

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. – Francis Bacon

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. – Ward Becker

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. – Henry Ward Beecher

Every law is an infraction of liberty. – Jeremy Bentham

Where there is no law there is no transgression. – Bible

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation. – Helen P. Blavatsky