Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them

Law never made men a whit more just.

Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope