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• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility.
  For only in such a state will those rule who are truly rich, not in gold, but in the wealth that makes happiness--a good and wise life....
• It is better to be good than original.
• Good laws, if not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
  -- Aristotle (384-322 BCE) "Nicomachean Ethics" IV,8,1294a,4...
• It takes a mighty good man to be better than none at all.
• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• So good it's better than itself.
• Law is order, and good law is good order. -- Aristotle
• A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. -- Descarte