Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.