That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

  • -- Germaine de Stael 杰曼·德·斯塔尔

过去是如此武断地作为现在的先例提出的,它本身是建立在它之前的一些过去的基础上的。

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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

我走在人迹罕至的土地上。在我的行为中,几乎没有哪一部分可以不成为今后的先例。

A precedent embalms a principle.

先例使原则不朽。