““when Dandamys the Wise heard accounts of the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes, he said that they were in every way great personalities, except for their being too subject to venerating the Law: for, to support Law with its authority, true virtue must doff much of its original vigour; and many vicious deeds are done not merely with the Law’s permission but at its instigation:13””
![“[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb3/edward-gibbon-710_character_the-operation-of-the-wisest-laws-is-impe_490418.jpg)
