"True law is right reason in agreement..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.
More by Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.”
“Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.”
“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”
More on Law
“Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.”
“When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.”
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.”
More on Nature
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
“Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!”
“If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.”