It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions…

“For there is no true equivalence between languages, and English law differs from civil law in both its genesis and its practice.”

— Jovan Autonomašević

“If a human creature is composed of two beings, and if the acknowledgment of the necessity of preserving their union is the chief mark…

— Montesquieu

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.

— Joseph P. Bradley

“While the Christian and civic traditions were intrinsically suspicious of commerce, the Roman civil law was not. Rediscovered in the revival of learning in…

— Jerry Z. Muller

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that…

— Enda Kenny

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

— Roger Williams

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

— Lori Lipman Brown

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Almost all modern legal practice is derived from one of two distinct traditions. The first, the so-called civil law tradition, is a direct successor…

— William Rosen

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The…

— Samuel Johnson

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and…

— Samuel Johnson

It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice,…

— Samuel Johnson

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and…

— Samuel Johnson

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

— Samuel Johnson