A sage punishes not because a crime has been committed， but rather to prevent its being committed; because the past cannot be revoked， but the future is being forestalled.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Every law has its loophole.

A lean compromise is sometimes better than a fat lawsuit, but only sometimes.

The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Law can never be enforced unless fear supports it.

 Law is the crystallization of the habit and thought of society.

 Law is order, and good law is good order.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.