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外国法学名人名言集录

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a sage punishes not because a crime has been committed， 智者非因犯罪已然发生才去惩罚，实乃为了防

but rather to prevent its being committed;because the past 止犯罪而施刑责；其原因在于，过去无法逆转，

cannot be revoked， but the future is being forestalled. 而未来则可以预防。

(Lat. nemo prudens punit quia peccatum est， sed ne

peccetur;reuocari enim praeterita non possunt， futura

prohibentur)

...Plato

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon 法律是人类为公众利益所作实践中探索出的人

human experience for the benefit of the public.

...Samuel Johnson

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

...Earl Warren

类智慧最终结晶。

——塞缪尔·约翰逊

在文明的生活中，法律漂浮在道德的海洋上。

——厄尔·沃伦

——柏拉图

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client 法律看起来就象某种迷宫委托人要想通过，肯

must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks and 定需要他人引导其通过种种暗礁。

underwater hazards through which he or she must be

piloted.

...John Mortimer

The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove. 裁决认定掠夺者无罪，而给主张和平的人判刑。

[Lat., Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.]

...Juvenal

The law often allows what honor forbids. 法律允许的而道义上常常禁止。

——尤维纳利斯

——约翰·莫蒂默

[Fr., La loi permet souvent ce que defend l'honneur.] ——伯纳德·约瑟·莎伦

...Bernard Joseph Saurin

Unnecessary laws are but traps for money.

...Hobbes

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

...Julius Caesar

无用的法律不过是捞钱的陷阱。

——霍布斯

武力与法律不能同时兴盛。

——尤利乌斯·凯撒

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that 不指控坏人较宣告他无罪更稳妥。

he should be acquitted.

[Lat., Hominem improbum non accusari tutius est quam

absolvi.]

...Titus Livy

The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the 不是君主高于法律，而是法律高于君主。

prince.

[Lat., Non est priceps super leges, sed leges supra

principem.]

...Pliny the Younger

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest 最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。

——小普林尼

——泰特斯·李维

外国法学名人名言集录

injustice.

[Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.]

...Terence

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest

injustice.

[Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.]

...Terence

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.

[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]

...Publilius Syrus

——泰伦斯

最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。

——泰伦斯

如果犯罪之人被判无罪，法官应该判刑。

——普布里利亚斯·西拉斯

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, 偏听一方而对案件作出判决不可能公正，虽然

though he decide justly, cannot be considered just. 他自认为很公正。

[Lat., Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera, Aequum ——卢西乌斯·阿纽斯·塞内加

licet statuerit, haud aequus fuerit.]

...Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment

against an whole people.

...Edmund Burke

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

...Julius Caesar

武力与法律不能同时兴盛。

——尤利乌斯·凯撒

我不知道如何起草控告所有人的方法。

——埃德蒙·伯克

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom 由民众意见支持的不成文习惯法比成文法更具

supported by popular opinion.

...Carrie Chapman Catt

Law is mind without reason.

...Aristotle

约束力。

——卡丽·查普曼·凯特

法律是无由的理念。

——亚里斯多德

Necessity has no law.

...William Langland

“必要”不受制于法。

——威廉·朗格兰

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law 让我们来搜寻本案的理由，因为没有理由不成

that is not reason.

...Sir John Powell

其为法律。

——约翰·鲍威尔爵士

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious 我知道取缔有害或讨厌的法律最有效的方法是

laws so effective as their stringent execution.

...Ulysses S. Grant

严厉地去执行它。

——尤利塞斯·S·格兰特

At least in the law of the jungle, you've survival of the 至少在法律丛林中，适者生存。在国会中，你

fittest. In Congress, you've just got survival.

...Robert W. Packwood

得生存。

——罗伯特·W·帕克伍德

He found law dear and left it cheap.

他对法律一见钟情，随即又见异思迁。