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Law: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Quid leges sine moribus Vanæ proficiunt? Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immorality?— HORACE — Carmina. III. 24. 35.

Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur. The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. Law Maxim. Certis *** legibus omnia parent. All things obey fixed laws.— MANILIUS — Astronomica. I. 479.

Sunt superis sua jura. The gods have their own laws.— OVID — Metamorphoses. IX. 499.

Nescis tu quam meticurosa res sit ire ad judicem. You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.— PLAUTUS — Mostellaria. V. 1. 52.

Inertis est nescire, quid liceat sibi. Id facere, laus est, quod decet; non, quod licet. It is the act of the indolent not to know what he may lawfully do. It is praiseworthy to do what is becoming, and not merely what is lawful.— SENECA — Octavia. CCCCLIII.

Jus summum sæpe summa est malitia. The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.— TERENCE — Heauton-Timoroumenos.

IV. 5. 48. Quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret. What the law insists upon, let it have of your own free will.— TERENCE — Adelphi. III. 4. 44.

La charte sera désormais une vérité. The charter will henceforth be a reality.