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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
German Proverb
Laws go where dollars please.
Portuguese Proverb
Laws go where money pleases.
Portuguese Proverb
Having drunk the country's water, one should obey the country's laws.
Tibetan Proverb
Laws are silent in time of war.
Russian Proverb
The maker of laws must be severe; who executes them must be generous.
Chinese Proverb
With customs we live well, but laws undo us.
English Proverb
For the upright there are no laws.
German Proverb
There's neither success nor efficiency without authority and laws.
Irish Proverb
Better no law than laws not enforced.
Italian Proverb
Laws were made for rogues.
Italian Proverb
Laws without penalties are like bells without clappers.
Czech Proverb
Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers.
Czech Proverb
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
Scottish Proverb
Necessity knows no laws.
Vietnamese Proverb
Laws have wax noses.
French Proverb
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
Spanish Proverb
Where there are no laws, they can't be broken.
Yugoslav Proverb
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Chinese Proverb
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
American Proverb
Where drums beat, laws are dumb.
English Proverb
Few laws, good nations.
German Proverb
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