I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. (Michel de Montaigne)

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Michel de Montaigne

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