A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
法律和律师
Law And Lawyers
One with the law is a majority.
一个有法律的人就是多数。
Law is born from despair of human nature.
法律源于对人性的绝望。
Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.
律法能发现罪，却不能除去罪。
Laws do not persuade because they threaten.
法律不能说服人，因为它们具有威胁性。
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
有瑕疵的钻石胜过无瑕疵的鹅卵石。
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
律师是出租他们的言语和愤怒的人。
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
自己当律师的人，会把傻瓜当作委托人。
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
任何傻瓜都能制定规则，而每个傻瓜都会介意。
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
法律只是穿着白色长裙的权宜之计。
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
法律和舞台，都是表现主义的一种形式。
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
最严厉的法律有时会变成最严重的不公正。
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
如果没有坏人，就不会有好律师。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
我有时希望人们把更多的重点放在遵守法律上，而不是执法上。
Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn.
当我们犯错的时候，给我们更仁慈的法律把我们带回来，不要把监狱，监狱，监狱放在我们面前，无论我们走到哪里。
If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
如果我们废除世界上所有的法律，婚姻仍然存在。
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
法律是一种灵巧的风俗习惯的混合体，这些风俗习惯有益于社会，即使没有法律存在，也可以遵循;而另一些风俗习惯则有利于统治少数人，但对大多数人有害，只能通过恐怖手段强加于他们。