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 1      I, 1 |      no doubt, think that the laws should prescribe such rules,
 2      I, 1 |  great moment that well-drawn laws should themselves define
 3      I, 1 |    find a large number. Next, laws are made after long consideration,
 4      I, 4 |      for it is on a country’s laws that its whole welfare depends.
 5      I, 4 |      It is useful, in framing laws, not only to study the past
 6      I, 4 |   from these we may learn the laws and customs of different
 7      I, 13|      the kind about which the laws have something to say. The
 8      I, 13|       to think less about the laws than about the man who framed
 9      I, 14|    which breaks the unwritten laws of justice-the better sort
10      I, 14|     to be so, and the written laws depend on force while the
11      I, 14|      which breaks the written laws: for the man who commits
12      I, 15|      They are five in number: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures,
13      I, 15|      First, then, let us take laws and see how they are to
14      I, 15|       nature, whereas written laws often do change. This is
15      I, 15|        Or that not to use the laws is as ahas to have no laws
16      I, 15|    laws is as ahas to have no laws at all. Or that, as in the
17      I, 15|       to be cleverer than the laws is just what is forbidden
18      I, 15| accounted best.-So far as the laws are concerned, the above
19      I, 15|      before administering the laws. ‘My opponents insist that
20     II, 19|     try to establish abstract laws of greatness and superiority,
21     II, 23|      prosperous under Solon’s laws and the Lacedaemonians under
22     II, 23|     when he observed that the laws required a law to set them
23     II, 23|     legislator Draco that his laws were those not of a human
24    III, 3 |     the Isthmian games"; not "laws", but "the laws that are
25    III, 3 |  games"; not "laws", but "the laws that are monarchs of states";