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No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom 由民众意见支持的不成文习惯法比成文法更具 supported by popular opinion. ...Carrie Chapman Catt Law is mind without reason. ...Aristotle 约束力。 ——卡丽·查普曼·凯特 法律是无由的理念。 ——亚里斯多德
The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client 法律看起来就象某种迷宫委托人要想通过，肯 must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks and 定需要他人引导其通过种种暗礁。 underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted. ...John Mortimer The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove. [Lat., Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.] ...Juvenal The law often allows what honor forbids. [Fr., La loi permet souvent ce que defend l'honneur.] ...Bernard Joseph Saurin Unnecessary laws are but traps for money. ...Hobbes Arms and laws do not flourish together. ...Julius Caesar 无用的法律不过是捞钱的陷阱。 ——霍布斯 武力与法律不能同时兴盛。 ——尤利乌斯·凯撒 法律允许的而道义上常常禁止。 ——伯纳德·约瑟·莎伦 裁决认定掠夺者无罪，而给主张和平的人判刑。 ——尤维纳利斯 ——约翰·莫蒂默
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that 不指控坏人较宣告他无罪更稳妥。 he should be acquitted. [Lat., Hominem improbum non accusari tutius est quam absolvi.] ...Titus Livy The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the 不是君主高于法律，而是法律高于君主。 prince. [Lat., Non est priceps super leges, sed leges supra principem.] ...Pliny the Younger The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest 最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。 ——小普林尼 ——泰特斯·李维
The law exists to protect us all, whether we are union 法律保护我们所有人，不管你是工会成员、工 members, union leaders, employers or merely 会领导人、职员还是长期受苦的公众成员。没
long-suffering members of the public. We cannot Leabharlann Baiduo without 有法律我们一事无成。但是法律不是一条单行 it. But the law is not a one-way street. Part goes our way, 道，有些是我们的方向，而有些与我们反向。 part goes against us. We have either to accept it all or 我们要么全部接受，要么选择无政府状态。 else to opt bor anarchy. ...Sir John Donaldson There is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful 没有比开始改革一个国家的宪法在安排上更困 of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating change in a State's constitution. The 难，在成功方面更不确定，在实施方面更危险。 改革者要得罪所有在旧规则下获益的人；而只 ——约翰·唐纳森爵士
Necessity has no law. ...William Langland
“必要”不受制于法。 ——威廉·朗格兰
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law 让我们来搜寻本案的理由，因为没有理由不成 that is not reason. ...Sir John Powell 其为法律。 ——约翰·鲍威尔爵士
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a sage punishes not because a crime has been committed，智者非因犯罪已然发生才去惩罚，实乃为了防 but rather to prevent its being committed;because the past 止犯罪而施刑责；其原因在于，过去无法逆转， cannot be revoked， but the future is being forestalled. 而未来则可以预防。 (Lat. nemo prudens punit quia peccatum est， sed ne peccetur;reuocari enim praeterita non possunt， futura prohibentur) ...Plato The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon 法律是人类为公众利益所作实践中探索出的人 human experience for the benefit of the public. ...Samuel Johnson In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ...Earl Warren 类智慧最终结晶。 ——塞缪尔·约翰逊 在文明的生活中，法律漂浮在道德的海洋上。 ——厄尔·沃伦 ——柏拉图
——泰伦斯
最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。 ——泰伦斯
如果犯罪之人被判无罪，法官应该判刑。 ——普布里利亚斯·西拉斯
偏听一方而对案件作出判决不可能公正，虽然 他自认为很公正。
[Lat., Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera, Aequum ——卢西乌斯·阿纽斯·塞内加 licet statuerit, haud aequus fuerit.] ...Lucius Annaeus Seneca I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. ...Edmund Burke Arms and laws do not flourish together. ...Julius Caesar 武力与法律不能同时兴盛。 ——尤利乌斯·凯撒 我不知道如何起草控告所有人的方法。 ——埃德蒙·伯克
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious 我知道取缔有害或讨厌的法律最有效的方法是 laws so effective as their stringent execution. ...Ulysses S. Grant 严厉地去执行它。 ——尤利塞斯·S·格兰特
He found law dear and left it cheap.
他对法律一见钟情，随即又见异思迁。
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...Ulysses S. Grant
——尤利西斯·辛·格兰特
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. 公平与不公平仅一线之隔。 ...Sophocles ——萨福克里斯
At least in the law of the jungle, you've survival of the 至少在法律丛林中，适者生存。在国会中，你 fittest. In Congress, you've just got survival. ...Robert W. Packwood 得生存。 ——罗伯特·W·帕克伍德
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injustice. [Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.] ...Terence The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. [Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.] ...Terence The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ...Publilius Syrus He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.
adversaries, who have the existing law on their side, and 通常不轻信新事物，除非它们已经过实践检验。 partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting n 结果，改革随时遭反对变革者剧烈地攻击，而 其他支持者又只是冷淡的。因此，改革者及友 人都濒临灭绝。 ——马基雅弗利 The question is, not what may be supposed to have been 问题不是推定的意图，而是曾经说过什么。 intended, but what has been said. ...Lord Halsbury It is found by experience that admirable laws and right 经验告诉我们绝妙的法律及正确的先例来源于 precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. ...Cornelius Tacitus People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. 人们说我与法律有过冲突，其实是不准确的。 I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors." ...Mark Duffy ?There can be no really pervasive system of 我只是同那些过分热心的检举人有过冲突。 ——马克·达菲 没有被压迫者的同意，就不会有真正的压迫制 他人的犯罪基础上的。 ——科尼利厄斯·塔西佗 ——赫斯布里勋爵
innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under 是冷淡的支持者是那些从即将实施的新规则下 the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming 获益的人。 from those who could prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm partly from fear of their 这些人不热心支持一方面是因为出于对那些站 在现行法律一边的敌手的畏惧；另一方面因为