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“Lex est summa ratio insita a natura, quae iubet ea, quae facienda sunt, prohibetque contraria.”

— Cicero

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Wikiquote: Cicero
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Context

Law is the perfection of reason implanted in us by nature, which enjoins what should be done, and forbids what we should not do.

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Cicero. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cicero. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero

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