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Dialogue
1 Intro| of heaven, authorized by law. Nothing is more bitter 2 Intro| is better and higher than law, because he is more able 3 Intro| willing to acquiesce in any law or custom which will save 4 Intro| science, which is superior to law and written enactments; 5 Intro| prerogative; these, as the law declares, know how to give 6 Intro| freedom and compulsion, law and no law, poverty and 7 Intro| and compulsion, law and no law, poverty and riches expand 8 Intro| democracy may observe the law or may not observe it. But 9 Intro| us either with or without law, and whether they are poor 10 Intro| state, whether according to law or without law.~‘I do not 11 Intro| according to law or without law.~‘I do not like the notion, 12 Intro| good government without law.’~I must explain: Law-making 13 Intro| of all is, not that the law should rule, but that the 14 Intro| all, or last for ever. The law is just an ignorant brute 15 Intro| restriction of a written law. Let me suppose now, that 16 Intro| or poor, with or without law, and whether the citizens 17 Intro| but by making his art a law, and, like him, the true 18 Intro| which is superior to the law. This is scientific government, 19 Intro| the inviolability of the law, which, though not the best 20 Intro| a manner contrary to the law, he shall be punished with 21 Intro| one as the guardian of the law, who was both ignorant and 22 Intro| interested, and who perverted the law: would not this be a still 23 Intro| customs and maintain the law, this is called aristocracy, 24 Intro| or if they neglect the law, oligarchy. When an individual 25 Intro| individual rules according to law, whether by the help of 26 Intro| when he rules in spite of law, and is blind with ignorance 27 Intro| necessary imperfection of law; (6) the relation of the 28 Intro| will is better than any law. He is the special providence 29 Intro| personal governor. For the law need not necessarily be 30 Intro| elements must remain—the fixed law and the living will; the 31 Intro| applications whether made by law or equity in particular 32 Intro| God or man, is above the law, and is a law to himself 33 Intro| above the law, and is a law to himself and to others. 34 Intro| Greeks as among the Jews, law was a sacred name, the gift 35 Intro| which is almost an evil. The law sacrifices the individual 36 Intro| the ideal is a person or a law may fairly be doubted. The 37 Intro| expression in the deification of law: the ancient Stoic spoke 38 Intro| a person who was also a law. Nor is it easy for the 39 Intro| abstraction and interrupt the law, in order that he may present 40 Intro| mankind that a person is a law, that the higher rule has 41 Intro| the eye of God and of the law, yet the one may be by nature 42 Intro| but what is possible.~d. Law is the first principle of 43 Intro| aware of the imperfection of law in failing to meet the varieties 44 Intro| seamanship were regulated by law. Much has been said in modern 45 Intro| contrasts the imperfection of law with the wisdom of the perfect 46 Intro| little or no regard to the law, attempted to decide with 47 Intro| not by any principle of law, but by the opinion of another 48 Intro| judging like himself without law. In the second place, even 49 Intro| his conduct to any rule of law. For the compact which the 50 Intro| For the compact which the law makes with men, that they 51 Intro| protected if they observe the law in their dealings with one 52 Intro| shall be protected by the law if they act rightly in their 53 Intro| principal advantages of law is not merely that it enforces 54 Intro| is the exception to the law, conforms to fixed rules 55 Intro| accustomed use of words. The law which to the Greek was the 56 State| priestly class, who, as the law declares, know how to give 57 State| involuntary, poverty and riches, law and the absence of law, 58 State| law and the absence of law, which men now-a-days apply 59 State| compulsory submission, of written law or the absence of law, can 60 State| written law or the absence of law, can be a right one?~YOUNG 61 State| whether they rule according to law or without law, over willing 62 State| according to law or without law, over willing or unwilling 63 State| thing of all is not that the law should rule, but that a 64 State| Why?~STRANGER: Because the law does not perfectly comprehend 65 State| course not.~STRANGER: But the law is always striving to make 66 State| SOCRATES: Certainly; the law treats us all precisely 67 State| True.~STRANGER: Then if the law is not the perfection of 68 State| restriction of a written law.~YOUNG SOCRATES: So I should 69 State| in observing the original law, neither himself giving 70 State| the citizen, contrary to law and custom, is compelled 71 State| but by making his art a law,—preserves the lives of 72 State| which is superior to the law? Nor can wise rulers ever 73 State| according to the letter of the law and the ancient customs 74 State| one who is qualified by law may inform against him, 75 State| contrary to the written law, he is to be punished with 76 State| be regulated by written law, we were to appoint as the 77 State| any adherence to written law?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~ 78 State| the multitude to break the law in any respect whatever.~ 79 State| individual rules according to law in imitation of him who 80 State| if he rules according to law, we give him the same name, 81 State| ruler governs neither by law nor by custom, but following 82 State| distinction of ruling with law or without law, applies 83 State| ruling with law or without law, applies to this as well 84 State| for us, the principle of law and the absence of law will 85 State| of law and the absence of law will bisect them all.~YOUNG 86 State| without the restraints of law, democracy is the form in 87 State| power of a guardian of the law which ministers to the royal 88 State| that union is implanted by law, and that this is the medicine