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Law Quotes by Denis Diderot
- Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
- The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
- A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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