Laws do not persuade because they threaten.

  • -- Seneca the Younger 塞内卡

法律不能说服人,因为它们具有威胁性。

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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

因为正如良好的道德如果要保持,就需要法律一样,法律如果要遵守,就需要良好的道德。

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

因为律法既是必须的、〔有古卷在此有良善的规条〕照样、也必须有良善的规条、〔有古卷在此有良善的规条〕律法才能保全。