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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

真理总是起源于少数人,而每一种习惯都是从一个被打破的先例开始的。

A precedent embalms a principle.

先例使原则不朽。