Quote#Wisdom
If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as…
Quote byOliver Wendell Holmes · 1841–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Path of the Law (1897).
English (original)
If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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