Category: law...

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. (HD Thoreau)
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. (V. Havel)
The law cannot be enforced when everyone is an offender. (Chinese proverb)
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. (HD Thoreau)
In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. (A. Lincoln)
there is not the slightest trace in ancient times of a distinct legal profession in the modern sense
a distinct class of legal specialists other than judges first emerged in the Greco-Roman civilization (as with law itself), especially in Rome from 200 BC - 600 AD