Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
More quotes from Edward Coke
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
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Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
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How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason – the law which is perfection of reason.
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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