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- Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
- John Selden (1584 - 1654)
- Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
- Sir Anthony Hawkins (1863 - 1933)
- Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
- Sir John Powell
- There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
- Augustus Hare
- He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
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