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.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

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。

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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

对于一个制定国家和制定法律的人来说,有必要假设所有的人都是邪恶的,只要他们有自由的空间,他们就会按照他们灵魂的邪恶行事。

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。