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英文中文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. (Lat. nemo prudens punit quia peccatum est， sed ne peccetur;reuocari enim praeterita non possunt， futura prohibentur) .Plato智者非因犯罪已然发生才去惩罚，实乃为了防止犯罪而施刑责；其原因在于，过去无法逆转，而未来则可以预防。 柏拉图The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. .Samuel Johnson 法律是人类为公众利益所作实践中探索出的人类智慧最终结晶。 塞缪尔约翰逊In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. .Earl Warren 在文明的生活中，法律漂浮在道德的海洋上。 厄尔沃伦The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted. .John Mortimer 法律看起来就象某种迷宫委托人要想通过，肯定需要他人引导其通过种种暗礁。 约翰莫蒂默The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove. Lat., Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. .Juvenal裁决认定掠夺者无罪，而给主张和平的人判刑。 尤维纳利斯The law often allows what honor forbids. Fr., La loi permet souvent ce que defend lhonneur. .Bernard Joseph Saurin 法律允许的而道义上常常禁止。 伯纳德约瑟莎伦Unnecessary laws are but traps for money. .Hobbes无用的法律不过是捞钱的陷阱。 霍布斯Arms and laws do not flourish together. .Julius Caesar 武力与法律不能同时兴盛。 尤利乌斯凯撒It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.Lat., Hominem improbum non accusari tutius est quam absolvi.Titus Livy不指控坏人较宣告他无罪更稳妥。泰特斯李维The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince.Lat., Non est priceps super leges, sed leges supra principem.Pliny the Younger 不是君主高于法律，而是法律高于君主。小普林尼The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.Terence最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。泰伦斯The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.Terence最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。泰伦斯The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.Publilius Syrus如果犯罪之人被判无罪，法官应该判刑。普布里利亚斯西拉斯He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.Lat., Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera, Aequum licet statuerit, haud aequus fuerit.Lucius Annaeus Seneca偏听一方而对案件作出判决不可能公正，虽然他自认为很公正。卢西乌斯阿纽斯塞内加I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.Edmund Burke我不知道如何起草控告所有人的方法。埃德蒙伯克Arms and laws do not flourish together.Julius Caesar武力与法律不能同时兴盛。尤利乌斯凯撒No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.Carrie Chapman Catt 由民众意见支持的不成文习惯法比成文法更具约束力。卡丽查普曼凯特Law is mind without reason.Aristotle法律是无由的理念。亚里斯多德Necessity has no law.William Langland“必要”不受制于法。威廉朗格兰Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.Sir John Powell让我们来搜寻本案的理由，因为没有理由不成其为法律。约翰鲍威尔爵士I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.Ulysses S. Grant我知道取缔有害或讨厌的法律最有效的方法是严厉地去执行它。尤利塞斯S格兰特At least in the law of the jungle, youve survival of the fittest. In Congress, youve just got survival. .Robert W. Packwood至少在法律丛林中，适者生存。在国会中，你得生存。罗伯特W帕克伍德He found law dear and left it cheap.Ulysses S. Grant他对法律一见钟情，随即又见异思迁。尤利西斯辛格兰特There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. .Sophocles公平与不公平仅一线之隔。萨福克里斯The law exists to protect us all, whether we are union members, union leaders, employers or merely long-suffering members of the public. We cannot do without it. But the law is not a one-way street. Part goes our way, part goes against us. We have either to accept it all or else to opt bor anarchy.Sir John Donaldson法律保护我们所有人，不管你是工会成员、工会领导人、职员还是长期受苦的公众成员。没有法律我们一事无成。但是法律不是一条单行道，有些是我们的方向，而有些与我们反向。我们要么全部接受，要么选择无政府状态。约翰唐纳森爵士There is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating change in a States constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who could prosper under the new.Their support is lukewarm partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the existing law on their side, and partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting n没有比开始改革一个国家的宪法在安排上更困难，在成功方面更不确定，在实施方面更危险。改革者要得罪所有在旧规则下获益的人；而只是冷淡的支持者是那些从即将实施的新规则下获益的人。这些人不热心支持一方面是因为出于对那些站在现行法律一边的敌手的畏惧；另一方面因为通常不轻信新事物，除非它们已经过实践检验。结果，改革随时遭反对变革者剧烈地攻击，而其他支持者又只是冷淡的。因此，改革者及友人都濒临灭绝。马基雅弗利The question is, not what may be supposed to have been intended, but what has been said. .Lord Halsbury问题不是推定的意图，而是曾经说过什么。赫斯布里勋爵It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.Cornelius Tacitus经验告诉我们绝妙的法律及正确的先例来源于他人的犯罪基础上的。科尼利厄斯塔西佗People say Ive had brushes with the law. Thats not true. Ive had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.Mark Duffy人们说我与法律有过冲突，其实是不准确的。我只是同那些过分热心的检举人有过冲突。马克达菲?There can be no really pervasive system of oppression . . . without the consent of the oppressed.Florynce R. Kennedy)没有被压迫者的同意，就不会有真正的压迫制度。弗洛里恩斯R肯尼迪The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.Emma Goldman权力最有力的保障是一致性；最小的分歧就是最大的犯罪。爱玛戈德曼The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development.John Christian Bovee 法律最重要的是法律随着时代不断改革发展。John Christian BoveThere are so many lawyers with their hands in the till there isnt room for money. .Howard Engel抽屉内到处都是律师的手，以致没有放钱的空间。霍华德恩格It is often thought that the police represent the law. It would be more accurate to say that they represent the force behind the law. .J. Ricker and J. Saywell经常有人认为警察代表法律。更准确来讲，他们代表法律背后的强制力。J. Ricker和J. SaywellSenility has its privileges. .Edward Farrer老人应享有特别待遇。爱德华法拉Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.Anthony Norvell 种下一粒麦种你可以收获一品脱；种下一品脱你可以蒲式尔。通常法律回报你的总比你给予的多。安东尼诺维尔Laws were made to be broken. .Christopher North制定法律用于被人破坏。克里斯托弗诺斯HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another - the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. .Ambrose Bierce杀人：名词，一个人被另一个人杀死。一般分为四种情况：重罪的、可免除的、有理由的及值得称颂的，但是对于被杀者没有任何区别。而这种分级只对于律师有用。安布罗斯比尔斯Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. .Coke法律的生命是推理，不仅如此，而且普通法本身除了推理外别无他物。科克Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. .Abraham Lincoln阻止诉讼。随时说服你的邻居采取折衷措施去避免诉讼，律师作为调节人，不但有很好的机会成为一个好人，而且总是有许多生意上门。亚伯拉罕林肯The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. .Henry Kissinger违法一瞬间即可完成，但违宪则需更长一点时间。亨利基辛格With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. .Edson Haines每一个民事权利必须有对应的民事义务。Edson HainesWe are creating the kind of society where the criminal is out of jail before his victim is out of hospital .Richard J. Needham我们正在建设一种受害者尚未出院而罪犯却已出狱的社会。理查德J尼达姆The law gives a dog more rights than the person he bites . J. C. McRuer法律给予狗的权利比被它咬的人多。J. C. McRuerIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think thats pretty important. .Martin Luther King事实上，法律不能让一个人爱上我，但可以阻止他对我动私刑。我认为这是最重要的。马丁路德金Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. .Jane Bryant Quinn律师就像收费桥的工作人员，任何搜寻公平的人都必须由此经过。简布莱恩特奎因There are not enough jails, not enough policeman, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. .Hubert Humphrey就是再多的监狱、再多的警察及法庭也无法实施民众不支持的法律。休伯特汉弗莱Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers. .Elbert Hubbard律师是我们聘来用以应付其他律师的。埃尔伯特哈伯德It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren法律的本质就是保持正义不灭。沃伦伯爵A lawyer cannot be made honest by an act of the Legislature. Youve got to work on his conscience, and his lack of conscience is what made him a lawyer.Will Rogers立法机关的法令不可能使律师变得诚实。你必须凭良心作事，而正是缺乏良心才使他成为律师。威廉罗杰斯A law-suit is like an ill-managed dispute, in which the first object is soon out of sight, and the parties end upon a matter wholly foreign to that on which they began.Edmund Burke诉讼就象失控的争斗，开始争夺的目标很快淡出视野，而双方结束时的目标已与之毫无关联。埃德蒙伯克As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus一旦法律成为人们的必需品，自由就不再适合他们。毕达哥拉斯As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus人们一旦必需法律时，就意味着不再需要自由。皮西亚斯You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.Philip Crosby 你必须带领人民慢慢地向他们认为正确的方向发展。菲力普克罗斯比What power has law where only money rules.Gaius Petronius金钱统治的地方权力就是法律。盖厄斯 佩特罗尼乌斯Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.Albert Einstein我们的防御不在于我们的军备，不在于科技，也不在于地下活动，而就是法律和秩序。阿尔伯特爱因斯坦The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.Mignon McLaughlin头脑永远不会支配心灵，只是在犯罪时才会成为它的伙伴。Mignon McLaughlinGood laws have their origins in bad morals.Ambrosius Macrobius好的法律来源于道德的沦丧。安波罗休玛克罗比乌斯The body of the law is no less incumbered with superfluous members, that are like Virgils army, which he tells us was so crowded, many of them had not room to use their weapons.Joseph Addison法律的躯体因为过量的成员而妨碍其正常运作，就如维吉尔的军队，他告诉我们，他们因为拥挤而没有空间使用武器。约瑟夫阿狄森The laws do not undertake to punish anything other than overt acts.Charles de Secondat法律除了公然的犯罪行为外不会同意惩办任何事情。Charles de SecondatA law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.Chaim Weizmann法律必须有一个道德基础,所以需要一个内部强制力让每一个公民去遵守。杰姆魏茨曼Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.William Shakespeare怜悯是法律的美德，只有暴君残酷地使用它。威廉莎士比亚To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Lisa Alther知道是对的但不去做，不是缺乏勇气就是丧失原则。Lisa AltherTo see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Lisa Alther知道是对的但不去做，不是缺乏勇气就是丧失原则。Lisa AltherTruth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson真理是生命的至高点，正义是其实践者。拉尔夫沃尔朵爱默生A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.Voltaire 在一个国家里，众多的法律就如众多的医生，虚弱和疾病的标志。伏尔泰There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court.Clarence Seward Darrow无论法庭内外都没有公正这类东西存在。克拉伦斯苏厄德达罗Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon Baines Johnson有组织犯罪不亚于组织反社会的游击战争.林顿贝恩斯约翰逊Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.- Ambrose祈祷：请求废除世界法则以利于个别无疑不足道的请求者。安布罗斯Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal宽容意味着对别人的尊重，不是因为他的对错，而是仅仅因为他是一个人。John Cogley CommonwealEvery kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.Albert Einstein人们之间的每种和平协作首先是建立在相互信任的基础之上，其次才是公共机构比如法庭、警署。阿尔贝特爱因斯坦Laws are like sausages. Its better not to see them being made.Bismarck法律如香肠，大家最好不要看它的制作过程。陴斯麦Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.Bill McIntire禁止枪支以减少暴力犯罪就如禁止汽车以减少酒后驾驶一样可笑。Bill McIntireTo live outside the law you must be honest.Bob Dylan生活在法律范围之外，你必须诚实。鲍勃迪伦As with forms of government, so with forms of law; it is the national character which decides.Herbert Spencer有什么样的政府就有什么样的法律；这是由国家的性质决定的。赫伯特斯宾塞Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.Polish Proverb即使是坏了的钟一天也能对两次。波兰谚语The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.Cicero最严苛的法律经常导致最严重的冤屈.西塞罗The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.Cicero最严苛的法律经常导致最严重的冤屈.西塞罗The problem with any unwritten law is that you dont know where to go to erase it.Glaser and Way不成文法的问题是你不知到哪去取消它。Glaser and WayThe welfare of the people is the ultimate law.Cicero人民的幸福是法律的根本。西塞罗When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.Benjamin Disraeli当人类思想纯洁时，法律显得无用；当人类思想腐败时，法律则不被遵守。本杰明 迪斯雷利Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.Aristotle即使法律已经写下，它们也不必须保持一成不变。亚里斯多德Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.Howard Mumford Jones迫害是社会的第一部法，因为抑止批评问题比迎合批评要容易。霍华德芒福德琼斯Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility leads to crime.Talleyrand过于关注易产生不快；过于漠视易导致犯罪。塔列朗How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.Albert Camus许多人犯罪仅仅是因为不能忍受不公正（的待遇）。阿尔贝特卡缪Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King无论何处的不公平都是对公平的威胁。马丁路德金The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.Erich Fromm成功的革命者是政治家，而失败的则为罪犯。艾里克弗洛姆Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.Henry Louis Mencken时间是伟大的法律判定者，即使在道德领域。亨利路易斯孟肯War does not determine who is right - only who is left.Bertrand Russel战争不能决定谁是正确的，只能决定谁离去。伯特兰罗素There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart只要有专制的规章就没有公平可言。帕特里克斯图尔特For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.Fran?ois Duc de la Rochefoucauld对大多数人来说，对公平的热爱只仅仅因为对遭受不公平的恐惧。佛朗克斯德拉罗希夫格Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained.James Abram Garfield全民教育的重要性仅次于自由与公平，没有它自由与公平就得不到永久地维持。詹姆斯亚伯拉罕加菲尔德Behind every great fortune there is a crime.Honor de Balzac每个巨额财富背后都包含着犯罪。奥诺德 巴尔扎克The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll公正的胜利才是唯一的和平。罗伯特格林英格索尔Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin缺乏公平的勇气是虚弱的。本杰明富兰克林That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcker你可以保持你的自尊，但是以正确的行为激怒他人比暂时用错误的行为取悦他人可取。William J. H. BoetckerComedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes喜剧与司法是同类的。阿里斯多芬尼士Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy变革是法律的生命。那些只关注过去或现在的人必然会错过将来。约翰菲茨杰拉德肯尼迪Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!.Joseph Joubert让我们维护正义,那么我们将会得到更多的自由.约瑟夫儒贝尔Only the winners decide what were war crimes.Gary Wills只有战胜者才有权判定什么是战争犯罪。加里维尔Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fuller呆板的公平其实是最大的不公平。托马斯福勒Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.Henry Martyn Robert 如果没有法律，但每个人都作着自认为对的事情，那他们至少享受着真正的自由。亨利马丁 罗伯特A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.German Proverb一份不公平的合同也好过一场冗长的官司。德国谚语The law is in another world; but it thinks its the whole world.John Mortimer法律存在于另一个世界，但它自认为它是整个世界。约翰莫蒂默He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. .Plato制造冤屈的人比遭受冤屈的人更可怜。柏拉图Laws describe constraint. Their purpose is to control, not to create.Tom Robbins法律记述着约束。他们的目标是控制而不是创造。汤姆罗宾斯Australia: An amalgam of States and territories with independent governments united by mutual resentment. .Anon澳大利亚：由互相憎恨的拥有独立政府的州及地域组成的结合体。AnonYou never, but never, go to litigation if there is another way out . Litigation only makes lawyers fat.Wilbur Smith如果有另外的出路的话，你千万不要提起诉讼提起诉讼只会养肥律师。威尔伯史密斯One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of this world can be cured by legislation.Thomas B. Reed世界上最严重的错觉之一就是希望立法可以拯救世间的罪恶。托马斯B里德When Mr Justice was a counsellor, he would never take less than a guinea for doing anything, nor less than half a one for doing nothing. He durst not if he would; among lawyers, moderation would be infamy.Jeremy Bentham如果法官作律师，他不会因为多给钱而多作事；也不会因为少给而少作。对其而言是两难，因为对于一般律师，立场不明是败笔。杰里米边沁I am ashamed the law is such an ass.George Chapman我以法律如此愚蠢为耻。乔治查普曼The law is of much interest to the layman as it is to the lawyer.Lord Balfour对法律而言，外行比律师能获更多的利益。巴尔弗爵士A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5, and ends giving $5 worth for $500.Benjamin H. Brewster一个律师开始其职业生涯付出500元只能得到5元的回报；而结束时5元能值500元。本杰明H布鲁斯特A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.Simon Hoggart英国律师愿意把自己以为是被称为法律的神秘实体的一部分；而美国律师愿意（拥有）一个游泳池、两栋别墅。西蒙霍加特A man without money, needs no more fear a crowd of lawyers, than a cro