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Laws Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
- There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment…
- Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see…
- It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
- The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
- Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
- Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
- Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and…
- I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious…
- Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and…
- Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons…
- The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
- There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times…
- Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws
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