Marsilio Ficino Quotes

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Right... is the child of law.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

Law is the ultimate science.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

There is nothing certain in the principles of jurisprudence.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.