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• All laws, whether good, bad, or indifferent, must be obeyed to the letter.
• Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle cla
  and that those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if possible than both the other classes....
• as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul..
  . -- Aristotle -- Nicomachean Ethics, Bl. I, Ch. 6, 10966, lines 29-30...
• It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. -- Aristotle
• Les Miserables Metalaw All laws, whether good, bad, or indifferent, must be obeyed to the letter.
• Even the gods cannot change history. -- Agathon (448-400 B.
  C.) -- Quoted in Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk, VI, Ch. 2, 1139 b 10...
• Law is order, and good law is good order. -- Aristotle
• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
  -- Hippocrates (c.460-400 BCE)...
• Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. -- Aristotle