The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

  • -- Tacitus 塔西托斯

国家越腐败,法律就越多。

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Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

即使是这样一个显而易见的想法,比如观察一只患有眩晕症的动物或旋转一只动物,他也没有想到,尽管他对人体进行了多次眩晕实验,并经常使用动物实验。

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

怀疑对美德的危害不亚于对幸福的危害;已经腐败的人天生多疑,而变得多疑的人很快就会腐败。

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

在一个腐败猖獗的国家,法律肯定非常多。