When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

  • -- Tacitus 塔西托斯

当国家最腐败时,法律就会成倍增加。

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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人,我知道,法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

如果个人美德的根病了,公共廉洁的果实就必然腐败。

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

如果你违反了自然法则,你就是你自己的检察官、法官、陪审团和刽子手。

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。