Laws control the lesser man; right conduct controls the greater one.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conduct, rightness, man
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Laws are useless when men are pure, unenforceable when men are corrupt.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about corruption, man
Laws without penalties are like bells without clappers.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech
Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech about punishment
Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Laws catch flies but lets hornets go free.
Proverbs and old sayings English
Laws have wax noses.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Laws were made for rogues.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Laws go where money pleases.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about money
Laws go where dollars please.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Laws go as kings like.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about money, time
Laws are silent in time of war.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about war, time
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Laws go the way kings direct.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
Proverbs and old sayings German
The one who went to the in-laws got trapped in a thorn tree.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If you go to your in-laws you do not come back empty handed but with a cock.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
He who starts a lawsuit makes a hole in the dike.
Proverbs and old sayings
