What power has law where only money rules.

—Gaius Petronius

About Gaius Petronius

Portrait of Gaius Petronius

Gaius or Publius Petronius (died after 20 BC) was the second and then fourth prefect of Roman Egypt.

More quotations tagged with “laws”

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

—Felix Frankfurter

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

—Cornelius Tacitus

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The people's good is the highest law.

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