Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

  • -- George Hammond 乔治·哈蒙德

法律应该作为可接受行为的下限,而不是高尚行为的指南。

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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

法律一般不为三种人所理解,即制定法律的人、执行法律的人以及违反法律的人。

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

礼仪是所有法律中最不重要的,但它却是最严格遵守的法律。